KARACHI (Web Desk) – Tired of paying too much for your mobile bills because of excessive data usage? Not sure what’s eating up your monthly data allowance? We’re offering you five ways to control your mobile data consumption and check your bills.
Android devices and iPhones offer ways to disable push notifications through the system settings. You should also set your email to fetch mode and disable push unless you receive critical, time sensitive messages.
You can even disable background data transfer (data use when the apps are running in the background to perform some task).
Whenever you receive these items you also incur data costs. Fortunately, you can choose to disable auto-downloads for all, none or a certain content type whenever you receive a multimedia message.
You should ideally enable video and audio auto-downloads only when the phone is connected to Wi-Fi.
It’s a good idea to subscribe to the paid plan of a music streaming service and sync your songs when connected to Wi-Fi.
YouTube also lets you temporarily download music videos from most popular Indian record labels, valid for a period of 48 hours.
Opera also offers Max, a free, data-savings and data-management app that compresses videos, images and media from apps and websites to reduce data use.
