Does LTE internet drain your usage very quickly?

I think so.

When I'm out of the country and keep my phone on airplane mode using wifi ONLY, my smart phone lasts a good bit longer

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Just got an iphone 5s. Before i have had 3Gs and 4s. In the 4 years i had those phones i never went over my 2GB data plan. I just got a 5s last week and use the same apps the same amount and i went over my 2GB's in a week. Does have LTE on drain the data that fast?

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If you play the same playlist of songs on a 3G phone and an LTE phone, they will use the same amount of data.

When you set up your new phone, how long was it between the time it got turned on and you connected to WIFI? My guess is that it had to download all of your old apps, maybe some data, etc, and that's what used up your data, not the normal usage that you are thinking about. If that's not what caused it, then there might be a data hog app running in the background that you didn't have on your old phone.

Yes it does. I had this problem on my wife's phone once she got the new Iphone. We never had problems until recently. Then all of a sudden she was using data like fricking crazy. It was absurd.

I also made sure certain apps wouldn't use data in the background along with turning LTE off and we're back to normal.