Unlimited internet data breakdown

We’ll breakdown the average data usage of some of these everyday activities for you. Usually the higher your viewing quality is, the more data you use up.

Social Media – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & YouTube
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Scrolling through your social media feeds doesn’t generally use a lot of data (about 1.5MB per minute). When you start watching videos, looking at photo galleries and messaging - that’s when your internet usage can increase to 2.5-3MB per minute, or roughly 3GB per month.

Youtube statistics

TV and movie streaming – Netflix, Stan and Fetch
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Love a good tv series marathon? This will consume a bit of data when viewing on Netflix or Stan, especially in high quality mode.

Netflix and Stan

Fetch
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Fetch, uses around 1GB of data per hour for standard definition. It will get through about 3GB an hour using High Definition.

​Gaming – PS4, XBOX, Switch and PC
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Online gaming can consume from 10 MB to 50 MB an hour. The big data usage happens when you are downloading games before you get stuck in. There can be a big download range from 5GB to 190GB depending on your game’s size.

​Video chat & conferencing – Zoom
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With more of us working from home and communicating online, platforms like Zoom are on the rise. If you’ve got your picture quality set to high, you’ll be using more data.

1:1 Call on Zoom

Group Call on Zoom

​Audio Streaming – Spotify, Apple Music
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Streaming your podcasts and music playlists from Spotify or Apple Music can make a difference in your data download. Spotify lets you select your data streaming quality, whereas Apple music currently has one choice for everyone.

​Web browsing
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When you’re scanning across websites, each page will average about 1MB to 2.5MB to load. If you look at an average persona’s monthly web browsing history it will use about 7GB of data.