I've had my phone on LTE ever since my day at the SK Telecom office, where I'd changed my plan to the "general unlimited" data. Reminder: this new policy of mine isn't really for unlimited data: it's only for 12 GB a month. We're not even two full days into August, and I've already used up a whole gig. I guess I must watch a lot of YouTube in bed. But here's the thing about LTE: when you're on LTE, your data usage is always and constantly trickling away, like water from a bucket with a nail hole in the bottom. Leakage still isn't at the rate of one gigabyte a day—but it's nevertheless a steady trickle.
My desperate solution, just now, was to put my phone in "airplane" mode and turn on the WiFi, a solution that hadn't worked a few days ago. But, quite illogically, it seems to be working right now, at least for the moment. So from now on, I'll keep the phone in airplane mode when I'm chez moi, then turn it to LTE when I'm out and about. If I don't do this, not even 12 GB will last me a month. It won't even last me half a month.
I just checked my WiFi status. It still says "connected without internet," but it's behaving as if there were internet: I can hit "refresh," and the website reappears, updated, on my browser. Normally, if you're connected without internet and you hit "refresh," you end up on something like a "404 not found" page or, at best, a cached copy of the page you'd been on. Curious.
Are you sure 12GB is a hard limit and not just 12GB at a fast speed and thereafter at a much slower speed?
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check. Maybe I misunderstood. My phone shows data usage but not the data plan. I'll have to dig deeper online or go back to visit that branch again.
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