Carriers overcount your data consumption, study reveals

When using mobile phones with data plans, one of the major concerns of the users is to try and keep their data volume low so as not to bump the monthly bill. However, too often users complain that they feel their wireless carriers charge them for more than their actual data usage.

It so seems that such suspicions of the users may not be so wrong, after all. According to a new study at UCLA, the wireless carriers are able to ‘calculate’ the data usage correctly most of the times. However, they may make mistakes at times and when they do, they usually overcount the data usage. (more…)

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