


“All exchanges, transfers, and receiving of files are calculated and deducted from the available data balance in your data subscription. From emails of about 4KB to high definition movie files of 4GB and above. Ifeanyi Akosionu, Business Director, Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT), Verraki Africa, reveals that all interactions on the Internet have varying sizes of data they consume. Regardless of your service provider, some Internet activities will definitely consume more data than others. The rate of data depletion is heavily dependent on the kind of Internet activity we engage in. How does my network provider calculate the data I use? Using insights from the NCC and a telecom expert, we look at some pressing questions regarding data usage. Nine months later, the regulatory body has given no sanction regarding issues of data depletion, and according to its recent report, there's been a recent surge in complaints of rapid data depletion during the lockdown.
