My wife wanted to get her mother a new phone for her birthday; she had an ancient POS that wasn't loud enough for her to hear, and she had crappy service. The original plan was just to get her a new 'dumb' phone, but I had to open my big fat stupid mouth and said "Why don't we just get her a smartphone? It's just a few dollars more." Which is technically true - the price difference is negligible. However, it turns out this woman is a god damn data
hog. She blew through our quota (3Gb) in about 4 days flat. We bumped it to 6Gb; that bought us a week-and-a-half. I use less than 1GB, the wife uses about 2.5GB
My question for the brain trust is, how can I fix this? My wife has explained to her innumerable times about the data limits, and the MIL claims she's not doing anything out of the ordinary, but I can see the usage stats by device and category. I think she simply doesn't GAFF - this phone has become her entertainment. From looking at the stats, I imagine she's chain-smoking and surfing all damn day long. She's not local, so I have no way of tweaking the phone. FWIW, our carrier is Verizon. VZW has a "parental control" plan for $5 more a month, but from what I've read online, it's useless and easy to defeat. VZW doesn't let you cap the data per device (and why would they? My MIL is making them extra money!)
Thoughts?
