@Magpie41, if you are talking about the data usage of your plan, under your self-serve account, scroll down until you see My Data & Add-Ons. You will notice I have a whooping .001 usage! That's a lot! Click on View My Usage.
And then you will get detailed on what is used and what's left. My plan just renewed a couple of days ago, but as well, I am not using my phone as much as I have internet cable and a landline. Yep, an old school guy still has a landline, and it as free with my internet cable!
@wetcoaster covered cell data events when one uses text messaging. MMS messages cost a bit more than SMS messages because it involves the transmission of more data. A simple text doesn't cost you anything because it's part of Public Mobile's plan of having unlimited texting unless you have a grandfathered plan from a long-time ago. If you are sending a text-message that is more than say two or three pages of texting, an attachment such as a video or photo, or a voice recording, you need to turn your data on to push it along. This will eat up some of your data.
*Note: if you are using WhatsApp, FB, messenger or TextNow, try to use wi-fi if you can. Save the data for emergency purposes unless, you have a ton of data, and it's like me, where I only have 250mb.
@Magpie41 wrote:I find my usage statement hard to understand. There seems to be a lot of things called “data events” . Both the phone numbers are my own number (the same number) , and under usage it had the number “1”.
can someone please explain this to me?
Unfortunately some of the above information is only partially correct.
The "data event" is a MMS message (picture, extra long text) sent from your phone's messaging app. That's the reason that there are phone numbers listed. * These messages are included in your plan and don't count towards your data bucket. Actually, If you had a (grandfathered) talk and text only plan without data, you could still use this function, your data connection needs to be on for it to work though.
As contrast, the "web" designation is for actual data use that will deduct from your data. In the usage history it's reported twice a day, roughly 12hours apart, for the usage (browsing, checking e-mails, social media, streaming) since the last report. (For essentially real time usage check the data counter on the overview page, if it doesn't show there you have used up your data).
IP based messaging apps like WhatsApp, FB messenger etc, but also iMessage if a message is sent from iPhone user to iPhone user and the settings are adjusted accordingly, count as web event / docked from your data bucket.
In this example, I had sent one MMS message from my phone's messaging app (resulting in the data event), and then sent a WhatsApp message to another person (web).
It would look the same if an iPhone user would send one message to an Android user (data event) and one to another iPhone user (web).
* Edited to add that data events that show your phone number in both the originating and destination columns are incoming MMS. (I first had to double check that in my own usage history, sorry.)
