Data Usage Texts Show Amount of Data left

[corebot]

You receive a text when you have used 75% or 95% of your data (example: using US Data Roaming). It would be more helpful to show the amount of data left rather than the percentage.

[will13am]

I would find these reminders to be annoying.  We are all responsible big boys and girls.  We don't need our moms to dress us anymore.  Likewise we should not rely on our carrier to manage our data usage.  Besides that, every service comes with a cost to the customer.  This is one thing I would not want to pay for.  

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@corebot wrote:
You receive a text when you have used 75% or 95% of your data (example: using US Data Roaming). It would be more helpful to show the amount of data left rather than the percentage.

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[Korth]

I also find these reminders a little annoying.  "Milestones" like 75%/90%/etc suffice for me.

Although, I disagree a little with @will13am - we are *not* all responsible grownups.  I've met far too many "adults" who are locked inside their phones, addicted to social media and games, utterly powerless to turn their devices off for the duration of a meal or movie.  The same "responsible" adults who typically consume most of their available data/minutes in one week then attempt to conserve the paltry remainder for the next three weeks.

But I propose a sort of compromise: riders on our local transit system can text their bus stop number to "33333", the response text from "33333" is a brief summary of the upcoming bus schedule for that stop (followed by a second message with a money-making spammy advertisement, lol).

Perhaps Public Mobile subscribers can text their unique PIN to some specific service number (like "10000" or whatever) to receive a summary of remaining long-distance, roaming, and data allocations?  It shouldn't be too hard for a phone company to implement, lol.

[will13am]

I don't believe it's Public Mobile's responsibility to look after irresponsible adults.  Again it costs money and resources to provide more features for the customers.  These costs are passed to us users.  This is a no frills service, respect it for what it is.  If you want this feature so badly, join Koodo, they offer it.