What are phone and internet plans?

Do you understand what your phone or internet plan actually gives you?
Both come essentially with 2 measurements:

• Phone plans have included calls/SMS and data
• Internet plans have speed and download allowance

The calls/SMS refers to phone calls and text messages (using Messages or iMessages-green
bubbles) only, generally they are unlimited these days.
Data is everything else that your phone does: Facebook, including Facebook Messenger, video
calls, Weather, Emails, messages with pictures, Maps and all the other apps that get information
from the internet. This is shown in GB, which are 1000MB. A photo is usually around 2 to 8 MB,
an email without pictures is probably less than 1MB. But, a video (even a short clip on Facebook
or similar) can get in the 100s of MB very quickly and watching a movie can use GBs easily. So, as
long as you don’t watch videos, a small amount of GB on your phone plans is OK, just remember
that all your backups (like Google Photos) will also count towards your data. If you can link your
phone to your WiFi at home or elsewhere, you will not use your phone data; useful for updates
or other large downloads.

Internet also has a data allowance but usually much higher like 200GB or more. Again,
everything you do on the internet will count towards that, and if you stream movies on your TV
it will use about 2GB per hour in low resolution, but the better the picture quality the more data
it will use. So, 50GB per month will not allow you to binge watch many series.
Talking about streaming, the speed of your connection (measured in Mbps) will have to be at
least 25Mbps to allow you to watch a movie without the annoying circle–hiccups, if more than
one device is streaming, you will probably need a faster speed.

If you are not happy with your current plan for your phone or your internet, check out other
providers that might offer you more suitable plans or a better price.