6 Days Left of my Billing Cycle: 0.3 GB Left (out of 10 GB)
Are you kidding me?! I login to AT&T’s Wireless, myAT&T portal to dive into where is all our data going? I am able to see quite easily what mobile phone number is eating up our plan, but no additional granular information. AT&T has a great site with lots of good information to help their customers manage their plans.
However, it seems wireless providers leave it up to the handset manufacturers to interpret the usage of the phones. Makes some sense on an individual level, but as multi line / family wireless plans continue to evolve, the growth of wireless services management portals should be spent on providing consumers transparency into their usage, aggregated and granular.
Packets of [wireless] data, bits of information, have a ‘signature’ as they travel through the Internet ether. Packet protocol defines where the data/information originates, and it’s destination, as well as any other required information by the application sending / receiving the data. Wireless carriers’, services management portal should allow consumers to slice and drill down to see how data is being used. For example,
Wireless plans of 10 GB is not a lot with teenagers. You may want to target areas to curtail usage so you aren’t ‘bleeding data’. At this time, there is not enough transparency on how data is being used from the wireless provider’s usage platform. The provider should be able to parse data packets to quantify how data is being used, and provide reports, e.g.
June 2015 Snapshot for 212-555-1212
231 songs streamed from ABC, N MB; 23 videos watched on YouTube, 2.3 GB; 34 streamed videos from Netflix, 3.2 GB; 345 emails downloaded, 90 MB;
DAM on wireless services: Application data packet objects may have visibility through Digital Asset Management (DAM), all objects that can be managed, phone calls to chats from Facebook (except where encrypted).
Now take a piece of paper, write privacy on it, then rip it in half and toss it in the garbage.
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