Grid.ID - Ever wondered why Internet quota can run out when you rarely use it?
It can happen because you use applications that suck your quota.
Based on the latest Opera Max team research conducted on millions of users.
on average more than 30% of all data usage is used by apps running in the background.
For example like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Gmail are draining the mobile data package while working behind the scenes.
These findings are based on anonymous statistical aggregate data among Opera Max users in December 2015.
Facebook Messenger and Gmail are the most 'data-hungry' apps, with nearly 73% of their total data usage going on in the background.
Google Drive and WhatsApp show more than 50% of the usage of Background data.
Why is Background data an issue?
Background data (behind-the-scenes data usage) is all internet traffic that occurs when you are not actually using the app.
For example, email syncing, initial ad retrieval, news articles or feeds - even though you may not read them.
"Most apps are made to deliver exceptional experience to its users, not to save data," says Sergey Lossev, Why is Background data an issue?
Background data (behind-the-scenes data usage) is all internet traffic that occurs when you are not actually using the app.
For example, email syncing, initial ad retrieval, news articles or feeds - even though you may not read them.
"Most apps are made to deliver exceptional experience to its users, not to save data," says Sergey Lossev, Product Manager at Opera Software.
Sergey said if you use the background data, it's like throwing rp30 of thousands of any rp100 thousand you spend mobile data plan "most people don't realize the fact that the background of this data drain the data and of course not consciously allow it to be, they also don't know how to stop it happen." add lossev.