Most homes and places we frequent during the day are equipped with a Wifi network, so once you enter such an environment, make sure to turn off Mobile Data. This will save a lot of your internet package, although you should be careful about security issues when connecting to Wifi networks outside your home environment.

Most phones now have a “Data Usage” option for monitoring the amount of internet used from your package. While iOS devices provide an overall overview of internet usage from your package, Android devices provide a precise overview of internet usage for each application in use.

You can receive the status of your internet package via SMS on your phone. To check the status of your Prepaid account, press *101# and then 2, while for Postpaid accounts, send an SMS with the text Data status to the number 50555.

Receiving/sending multiple emails and using multiple social networks at the same time means using the internet even without your phone being active. This high usage can lead to faster usage of your internet package.

Watching videos and listening to songs can use up a lot of your data, especially if it’s HD video. Watching an episode or half of an HD movie can use up 2 GB of your data. Although listening to songs uses up less of your data, you should still be careful when listening for long periods of time.