re: Does LTE internet drain your usage very quickly?

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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.

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Thanks for nothing ZereauxSum

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I went out of my way to spell "Zereaux" this way specifically so things like this wouldn't happen...don't even know why I try.

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How fast you get data has no bearing on how much data is being used in and of itself.

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well, yes and no.

consider google music:

it likes to cache all the upcoming songs in your playlist or album you're listening to. cool huh?

so if you have a playlist with like 40 songs, its busy using that nice fat LTE connection to grab the next 39 songs.

that a hunk a hunk a burnin data.

if you were on a slower 3G connection, it wouldn't get so far down the list since it takes longer to grab them.

c'mon tmobile free music data!!