Mobile data is what

Finally, whatever: the SMS, a sort of ancestor of mobile data, remains today separated from the mobile internet in telephone packages. Billed by unit when launching, it was quickly included in unlimited packages: indeed, its very low cost for operators and its growing success with consumers quickly made up of the essential commercial advantages.

How to activate or deactivate mobile data on your Galaxy phone ?

Mobile data is an internet connection provided by a mobile network provider. You can just activate or deactivate it to save mobile data or configure it so that it automatically passes when a Wi-Fi network is available. Follow the guide below to find out how to activate and deactivate mobile data.

Before trying the recommendations below, be sure to check if your device software and related applications are updated to the latest version. To update your mobile device software, proceed as follows:

Step 1. Access Settings> Software update.

2nd step. Tap on Download and install.

Step 3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Activate or deactivate mobile data

If you have a mobile data package and an inserted SIM card, the mobile data is activated by default. Follow the steps below to check if the mobile data is activated or to deactivate it.

Step 1. Launch the Settings application, then select Connections.

2nd step. Press on Data use.

Step 3. Make sure the option Mobile data is activated. If you want to deactivate the mobile data, Press the switch to deactivate them.

You can also activate or deactivate mobile data via the quick panel. Sweep down from the top of the screen to open the quick panel, Then press the icon Mobile data To activate or deactivate this function.

Noticed : mobile data services can cause additional costs. It is recommended to contact your network service provider to find out the amount of data available.

How to activate data saving

Data saving helps reduce data use by preventing applications from using data in the background. Follow the steps below to activate Data saving.

Step 1. Launch the application Settings, then press Connections.

2nd step. Select Data use.

Step 3. Press on Data saving.

Step 4. Press the button next to Activate to activate Data saving.

You can also choose the apps you want to continue using your mobile data even when Data saving is activated. To give authorization to applications, press Authorize the application when the data saving is activated, Then press the switch next to the applications.

You can also access these options in Settings> Apps> Select the application> Mobile data> Authorize the application when the data saving is activated.

Noticed : screenshots and device menu can vary depending on the device model and software version.

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Mobile data is what ?

Operators are more and more often talking about mobile data. But what is it exactly ? Does your package contain ? When you have to activate them or on the contrary deactivate them ? In the era of the generalized smartphone, it is more than time to ask a few good questions ! We answer it today.

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• The essential :
• THE mobile data allow the Internet to be used on a phone.
• THE Sms do not use mobile internet.
• Operators offer mobile internet envelopes Very varied: 50MB, 20GB, 50GB, unlimited, etc.

What is mobile data ?

These are the digital information exchanged between the apps of your smartphone and the outside via the Internet. These data pass through your operator. Your mobile plan includes a certain volume of mobile data – or mobile data – every month. How to count them ? Please note, do not confuse the flow of mobile data in Mbps or Gbps which measure the speed, with the Mo Or Go measurement.

A MBPS (megabit per second) corresponds to a million data transmitted per second. They are far away the famous 56K modems from the beginnings of the Internet and their 56,000 data per second ! Today, thanks to 4G, mobile flows are rather counted in Mega even in Gigantry : a gigabit corresponds to 1,000 million data transmitted every second. We’re going to stop there, at least for the moment !

However, you may have noted that the units indicated by operators in their mobile packages are counted in MO (mega-typles) or GO (gigabyte) and not in Mbps or GBPS. This is normal, since they designate quantities and not a transmission speed. The correspondence between these two units is very simple: 1 byte = 8 bits. It is quite logical, the prefix “octo” meaning eight, as in an octagon, which is a geometric figure on 8 sides.

An example ? If you download, for example, a file at 400 kbps for 10 seconds, you get the 4000 k transmission, a 500 MB file (4000 = 500 x 8). All of this has only interest in Estimate the use you can make of your mobile data. Your operator does not take into account the transmission speed but only the amount of mobile data transmitted.

Since the advent of mobile internet with standards 3G And 4G and 5G, combined with the appearance of smartphones and their apps, web uses have become widespread, everywhere and all the time. Today, everyone consumes mobile data every day on their smartphone, perhaps without knowing it. It is therefore not useless to see in detail of what it is exactly and what operators offer in their mobile packages.

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Do SMS use mobile data ? And MMS ?

Named texto by SFR or simply Sms By the other operators, the short message was an immediate success from its launch: very practical to communicate without disturbing, simple to use, its use has been generalized and extended until today. SMS means Short Message Service, that is to say in French, Short message service : Indeed, the number of characters is limited to 160. Thus, any SMS exceeding 160 characters is automatically divided into several messages.

Is this mobile data ? Yes. and no. Yes, since these written messages do not occupy the bandwidth reserved for the voice and pass through the GSM, which is still a digital standard. No, not quite, since they are transported in the channels of the GSM protocol: technically, So this is not the mobile internet.

Finally, whatever: the SMS, a sort of ancestor of mobile data, remains today separated from the mobile internet in telephone packages. Billed by unit when launching, it was quickly included in unlimited packages: indeed, its very low cost for operators and its growing success with consumers quickly made up of the essential commercial advantages.

The case of Mms (Multimedia Messaging Service, in French: Multimedia messaging service) is a little different: these “improved SMS” which allow you to transmit photo, your or video, are in fact made up of two messages: a classic SMS, associated with a second message mobile data passing through the Internet. Despite this, their possibilities being limited, operators continue to associate them with SMS today to offer them unlimited. We can thus consider the MMS without mobile data : so much the better for consumers that we are !

When and how to activate / deactivate mobile data ?

When do we use mobile data ? Whenever one of the apps of our smartphone is connected to the Internet to work. For example, when you receive or send emails, or when you look at the weather for the day. But also any message or photo or video on WhatsApp or Instagram, any post on Facebook, even a simple tweet ! All these features available on smartphones require internet connection, So make you consume mobile data. This is not a problem as long as your package includes an “data envelope”, as is generally the case. Check: your monthly mobile plan certainly includes the Internet. This becomes if you exceed the envelope allocated to you or. If you go abroad !

Generally, Three factors can strongly influence your invoice at the end of the month and encourage you to enable Or Disable mobile data On your smartphone:

1. The amount included of data: it can indeed vary from 50 MB to 100 GB or more depending on the chosen package.
2. What happens when it is exceeded: reduced flow or additional invoicing ? And at what price ?
3. The billing of these data abroad: according to the world of the world, prices can become exorbitant. Activate the mobile roaming data has a cost and it can be high.

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To deactivate or Activate mobile data, Go to the menu ” settings »From your smartphone. When you choose ” Deactivated mobile data », Your smartphone limited to WiFi only transmission of mobile data passing through the Internet. You have, depending on the model, a global option to deactivate all mobile data (sometimes called ” Cellular data »As opposed to the transmission by WiFi), but also finest settings. You can for example configure their deactivation abroad or choose for which applications you want to keep the transmission of mobile data.

In general, it is particularly advised to Disable mobile data When you go abroad. An exception recently: Roaming costs in Europe have disappeared. You can therefore, with most packages, use the Internet in Europe exactly as in France ! Still good news for users.

How to estimate my consumption of mobile data ?

You suspect it, The heaviest files of files are the videos : a 5 -minute film “weighs” about 60 MB. It depends of course on the format used (MPEG, AVI, MOV etc. ), as well as its resolution (320 x 200, 1280 x 1024. )). The photos are also gourmet in MO: 20 photos of 8 megapixels alone represent 500 MB. Then comes the music: 10 MP3 files represent around 50 MB.

Imagine that each month you watch 3 short videos on Youtube, listen to a dozen titles on Deezer or Spotify and share 5 beautiful photos on Instagram: Video: 3 x 60 MB = 180 MB + Music: 50 MB + Photo: 40 MB = Total: 270 MB.

Compare this figure to the data envelopes included in the operators’ packages. Yes, you have understood the importance of choosing your package according to your consumption habits. We advise you to define your “profile” (intensive, regular, occasional, etc.) in advance to better compare the offers that suit you.

Mobile data: compare the current offers

To conclude this little guide of mobile data, Let us quickly review the offers available today (spring 2019) among operators.

For light use: small packages around 100 MB

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Use mobile data on your iPhone or iPad

Find out how to control your mobile data consumption and learn to activate and deactivate the use of mobile data for all apps or some of them.

Activate or deactivate mobile data

To activate or deactivate mobile data, access adjustments, then touch cellular data or mobile data. If you use an iPad, it is possible that settings> Cellular data is displayed.

• Activate access to LTE, 4G or 3G networks: you can select the type of network connection to use for voice and data. Learn more about these options. Find out more about the data options available with 5G on your iPhone or iPad.
• Activate or deactivate the voice option abroad: with CDMA networks, you can deactivate the Voice abroad to avoid costs related to the use of networks from other operators.
• Activate or deactivate the data option abroad: when traveling abroad, you can deactivate the data option abroad to avoid roaming costs. If you have an international data package, it may be better not to deactivate the data option abroad. Get more information on using your iPhone or iPad during trips abroad.

Depending on your operator, the data option abroad can be used when you travel within your country. Contact your operator to find out more about its data policy abroad or other mobile data settings. You can activate or deactivate mobile data to prevent apps and services from using the mobile network to connect to the Internet. When mobile data is activated, apps and services use your mobile connection when the Wi-Fi network is unavailable. In this case, the use of certain features and certain services with mobile data is likely to result in fees. Contact your operator to find out more about any costs.

Display your data consumption

To find out your consumption of mobile data, access settings> cellular data or settings> Mobile data. If you use an iPad, Settings> Cellular data may appear instead.

• Scroll down to consult the list of apps that consume mobile data. If you don’t want an app to use mobile data, you can deactivate it for this app. When mobile data is disabled, apps access data only via Wi-Fi network.
• To consult the consumption of individual system services data, access settings> cellular data or settings> mobile data. Then touch System Services in the list under cellular data. It is not possible to activate or deactivate mobile data for individual system services.
• You can consult the data consumption statistics of an app over the current period, as well as data consumption statistics of all apps when you have used homelessness. To reset these statistics, go to settings> cellular data or settings> mobile data, then touch the statistics reset.
• When you use an iPhone with Double SIM, you can see the consumption of mobile data for the selected number for mobile data.

To obtain the most specific mobile data consumption statistics over the current period, contact your operator.

Acquire help

• Find out how to do it if you still can’t connect to a mobile network.
• If you use an ActiveSync Exchange account when you have disabled mobile data for email and calendar, it may continue to use mobile data. To consult the consumption of mobile data from your ActiveSync Exchange account, access settings> Cellular data> System services.
• If activated, the Wi-Fi assistance option automatically rocks on mobile data when the Wi-Fi connection is bad. The Wi-Fi assistance option is activated by default. This may cause additional use of mobile data, which could, according to your data package, translate into additional costs. You can deactivate the Wi-Fi assistance option in settings. For more information, see the page about the Wi-Fi assistance option.