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unless your smartphone has an unlimited plan you should probably keep track of your data usage web surfing downloading apps and checking email will quickly dry up your data allowance if you aren't careful of course cell phone providers don't mind they're more than happy to slop a ten to thirty dollar fee on your bill whenever you go over your limit I'm Sharon Vaknin and I'll show you how to monitor and cut down on your mobile data usage if you find yourself going over your limit on a regular basis the first thing to do is figure out what's hogging data and there are three main culprits here first cut down on your streaming Pandora Netflix Spotify are just some of the services that will kill your data allowance in fact the guys at tested found out that pandora uses 30 megabytes per hour that's a lot of data especially when you're on one of those 200 megabyte plans apps are also data hogs downloading applications on the go is one of the fastest ways to use up your data you're better off waiting until you're connected to Wi-Fi finally turn off any services that constantly communicate with the network push email app notifications and GPS should be turned off whenever possible it's going to take more effort on your part to manually check email and Facebook notifications but you'll save a lot of data in the process once you cut out those major offenders it's time to start monitoring your data here are a couple apps for iPhone and Android that will let you do just that for Android check out my Data Manager the app tracks your data usage in real time and breaks it down by app this way you can monitor your data and find out exactly which apps are the biggest culprits the best part is that you can set usage thresholds and mighty the manager will notify you when you're dangerously close to hitting your limit if you're an iPhone user download data man it's free it'll track your usage in real time lets you set thresholds and sends you alerts whenever you've hit them with these apps and my tips on using less data you're well on your way to avoiding any annoying overage fees for seen it I'm Sharon Vaknin you