Ads are draining your data on your phone and your Apps are draining your data on your phone. Control them. Buy AdBlock for all your devices.
Read reviews on the Apps. Ad-Blocker Brower with ChromeCast Support on iPhone for Google, AdBlock Browser, AdBlock PRO ($1.99), there are others for Safari etc.
The money is worth it but please, please read reviews, research the developer, visit their website, send an e-mail with all your questions before downloading any app to your phones.
1. Buy AdBlock
Block the ads with a wonderful little app for phones and computer software that can turn off all the ads and block them.Buy the pure AdBlock and don't allow any ads through via the softer version which is called AdBlock Light.
You should NOT see ads and don't be a softie and allow Ad Light version. You'll pay for the ads that play on your phone.
2. Turn OFF Data for Apps
You must either turn off data for every single App on your phone that you are NOT using or YOUR data plan will pay for them. iPhone and Androids sold at phone companies aren't telling you to turn this junk off. You shouldn't have all your apps on all the time unless you have money to throw away.It takes only a moment to turn off all the apps that are pulling from and draining your data. If you don't turn them off you're going to get charged for that.
Go to Settings and turn each one off. When you need to use the App, turn it on.
Your new phone comes with settings whereby allllll Apps are on and draining your data. Even the apps you didn't download. Even the apps that came with the phone that you never touch.
Every time you Google something, that's an APP. It uses data. You pay for all of it and this doesn't need to happen.
Turn ON Wi-Fi--IF at Home and Wi-Fi is Secure
If you have home broadband, you can turn on the Wi-Fi on your phone and pull from that for a flat rate. Your Wi-Fi, not that provided for free from the apartment or building you live in. Secure, paid for Wi-Fi from a local "cable" company, mobile broadband jet pack from a phone service.Free Wi-Fi = Can Be Very Bad
Free Wi-Fi at a hotel, in a coffee shop, in a public place is a nightmare waiting to be unleashed on your cherished
Think you're getting over on some neighbor? Think again.
This means that when you leave your home, you'll need to turn OFF Wi-Fi so that your phone or laptop or mobile device doesn't pick up random Wi-Fi. Or triple check your device's Wi-Fi to be sure it makes YOU choose and LOGIN to secure Wi-Fi. Turn it off to be sure.
If you keep Wi-Fi on and allow your phone to search and connect to anything, you're leaving your phone/laptop/mobile device (iPad, tablet) and all its private information wide open to hackers.
What Can You Do Safely?
Use a secure broadband home or mobile jetpack for data to use your Apps. Don't use random, non-secure (translation: if you don't have a password that is specific to that Wi-Fi source which should be BROADBAND and SECURE as told to you by the provider).You can turn Wi-Fi on and keep Data OFF (including Roaming Data OFF) and use your phone reasonably well. Turning on the apps and data as needed.
The average person may not want to turn on and off...but then you'll be charged for that.
Let's talk about Wi-Fi which for many people is a very very insecure option because you may not have any antivirus or security software installed and paid for on your mobile device.
If you are going to a public place that doesn't have a password protected, secure and regularly changed password, you're using very unsecure Wi-Fi: Hackers can't wait for you to show them your stored passwords, banking and other personal information. They're probably sitting next to you in the location.
This is when broadband is needed and worth having. Mobile broadband that you can turn on and off and that only you have the password for.
1. Make sure that the source is secure (broadband at home, not +Starbucks Coffee +McDonald's
2. Use broadband and turn off data: +Verizon Wireless Customer Support +T-Mobile and +AT&T should tell all clients this information, but they don't. You buy a phone and they make you come back for LESSONS which you skip.
3. Wi-Fi....if you use a +Verizon FiOS or another brand of Mobile Broadband unit, you have to turn it off and on to save your data.
That Old Fashioned Home Internet Package
Still glad you got rid of your home Internet package? For about $65 to $150 month you can get unlimited lightening and titanium and all the other terms used to describe super fast and secure broadband for your phone, TV, and other home devices.Why Home Internet Seemed Slow
Home Internet may have been a nightmare with sketchy service, but that's only because the cable company or provider didn't tell you that you often need to rewire your home OR get a modem on every floor.Home broadband for multi-level homes needs to be able to be accessed. Thick walls, metal beams and corners are the enemy to broadband.
There's a limit to what broadband can do and will vary by your home structure. One modem, lightening broadband may be super slow if it's responsible for running 2-3 devices 24-7 through walls and floors. If you're a gamer, have kids with iPads, several laptops and desktops and TVs, you're looking at a big home broadband bill.
If you get a bigger, faster plan, you still have to find out how to keep that broadband at home streaming steadily through all walls and floors.You will likely need your home wired with the relevant number of wireless modems, wiring to keep the broadband streaming through all the walls and levels of your home.
Shop Around
Use your broadband on your device and shop around for home broadband. Call first and don't ever go into a phone store without knowing the competition's rates. When +Veri dropped the mandatory 2-year plan for phones last week, consumers received the opportunity to do what is needed for service.Don't Jump Deal to Deal
Be very wary of "special deals" for anything. Don't jump companies or change your Internet at home until a company is established. You may want +Century Link or +Comcast or +Bright House Networks or +TimeWarner or +Dish Network or +DIRECTV. But you'd better know that the company will survive the broadband battle for the next year or 2 years that you get locked into.You Get What You Ask For
If you don't ask, you don't get. You get what you don't ask for!! Negotiate. Be willing to walk away and go to another service for the best deal for YOU. Don't be a sucker and go to see the newest phones and get sucked in. Go to +Best Buy and look at all the phones and all the plans.True, the staff may or may not know the differences exactly, but you have a phone, use it and call to find out.
Go on +eBay or +Amazon.com and buy a phone from a top seller. If the phone sucks when you get it, +eBay and +Amazon.com have a buyer's protection and money back guarantee.
Buy Company-Specific Phone Online
If you know your phone service and data company, be sure to buy an unlocked Verizon, or AT&T or T-Mobile phone from any online company. Skip +CraigsList which offers no guarantee.Then, go into your phone service store of choice and sign up for $15 a month unlimited phone and text plan. Buy a data plan that you can live with and turn that thing OFF if you're not using it. You can turn it on as needed.
Choose for Yourself
Everyone uses data differently. Don't get sucked in, tricked or trapped by broadband/data and phone services. Take 10 minutes to find out what deal you can get. Don't go to +Verizon Wireless Customer Support without first calling +AT&T and +T-Mobile.Don't buy their phones at cost and pay more for a phone than you put away in savings each month and get locked into a plan for years that prevents you from getting what's new, latest and better!
These phones are complicated computers. You may feel like you can't live without them, but guess what?
Technology got to where it is today through face-to-face business deals. The phone companies know the technology available to you 12 months, two years from now, NOW, today.
But they're siphoning it and handing it out little by little knowing you can't wait to pay for the next big thing.
Cheers!
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