Several months ago my family (four users) switched to T-Mobile. Their family plan costs 102.99 per month after taxes and Federal employee discount and grants unlimited talk, text, and 500 MB of data per line, without overages. Data speed drops to a crawl beyond 500 MB but I wouldn't know, as I have been averaging perhaps 300 MB of data each month. I get both my home and work email on my phone along with a few other minor apps (like Words With Friends, Weather Channel, Living Social, etc.) and given that when I am at home I am on the Wi-Fi network, the reality is I consume very little data daily. My phone has become a 2014 version of a Palm Pilot, it does a nice job of keeping me organized. It has turned out to be a much better tool (kinda like a digital Swiss army knife) than I thought it would be. Although we could increase any individual line from 500 MB to 2.5 GB for an additional 10 bucks a month, the reality is I've received no push from the family to actually do this. Adult daughter pays $25 for her share of the plan, I get a $45 phone allowance from work (I am technically always on call), so cell for myself, my wife, and my son is coming in at $32.99 a month.
I continue to see carriers advertise family plans that are much higher, like AT&T offering four lines plus 10 GB combined data for $160 (before taxes of course) and making it sound like it is some sort of sweet deal. I find myself asking what would I do with 10 GB even if I had it for free?
How does the Mustachian crowd consume data?