Help How to figure out if I am streaming?

[usmdesigner]

My wife and I moved to a plan that has only 30 minutes streaming each month. She has already got a notification saying she is over the limit. She said the text happened when Pandora was up.

I have been using Pandora since we switched 2 weeks ago and have it running sometimes up to an hour a day.

She also said she got a warning text when playing Words with Friends.

The plan specifically said Pandora didn't stream and I've never seen a stream ad in Pandora.

Is there a way to figure this out? I don't want this huge bill at the end of the month for something that shouldn't be charged to us. Because Cspire (when I asked) could not help tell me what it is that is actually streaming. So I would then be inclined to say, well then where is the proof that what you are seeing is actually streaming?

 

[EZGOEVO]

When ever you're doing something that requires 3G, 4G, LTE...with the exception of WIFI, you're using data. I don't know about keeping track of the actual time. Look into the app My Data Manager.

 

[usmdesigner]

When ever you're doing something that requires 3G, 4G, LTE...with the exception of WIFI, you're using data. I don't know about keeping track of the actual time. Look into the app My Data Manager.

No, we have unlimited data. We have 30 minutes of streaming only. It's 2 separate things apparently.

Pandora is data, but is not streaming. Youtube is streaming. A chat program is streaming as well apparently. Pop ups could be streaming for an app, i guess if it is moving and not a picture. It would seem odd that an app would force you to view streaming ads and you can do nothing about it.

I see that for the web on a phone, you could try to get an ad blocker, but those don't work for apps. Hell, thats the whole reason we have the phone is for apps.