Hmm.
I was answering Patrick’s Saturday Six and one of the questions was regarding the most text messages you’ve used. So I went to my Verizon account online and pulled the bills. I stuck all the numbers in a spreadsheet just so I could see which number was higher. I also stuck the number of minutes used, and the number of kilobytes (KB) used on my data plan. MS Excel has a handy graphing function so I thought I’d just look and see how the numbers correlate to each other. I snagged a screenshot:
It’s interesting to note that of the minutes used, only 450 are ‘anytime’ minutes. I rarely go over the 450 minutes. For the last two years I’ve had 2000 minutes as an ‘overdraft’ I got when I renewed my contract with Verizon. There are still nearly 700 minutes in that minute bank. They’ll be gone in January unless they give me 2000 more when I renew. There were two months I used only 150 of the 450 minutes…most everything else is ‘IN’ or ‘Mobile to Mobile’ as they’re calling it now. Other stuff I noticed:
- I used the most data usage (72 MB) in December, though I am not sure why.
- I texted and talked a lot in June. Lots of ‘personal’ stuff occurring at that point.
- Last month was the least talkative, both text-wise and voice-wise.
- My lowest data usage was in April. Not sure why, either. It was lower than the others by a good bit.
I wonder if my usage is typical? This doesn’t include my work phone, which I tend to use a lot during the day if I am calling non-Verizon numbers. That was pretty high in June and part of July. Does anyone else ever look at their usage?