BEST-VALUE DATA PLANS

GOLD WINNER DODO As our appetite for data grows, it’s handy to have a mobile backup

Our love affair with data continues to bloom as Australians consume ever-increasing amounts year after year. In the three months to June 30, 2018 we chomped our way through 3.8 million terabytes (or 3.8 exabytes) – a 7% increase in data downloads compared with the amount in late 2017.

As our appetite rises unabated, having additional data available through mobile broadband can make sense. It can be a handy backup for those times when your home broadband is either down or just plodding along, or if you’re regularly out and about. It can also be a useful option if you’re travelling domestically. After all, keeping the world up to date with your trip on Instagram could see you burn through around 60MB in just five minutes, according to WhistleOut.

Dodo’s Mobile Broadband offers a thumping 25GB of data, and it’s worth using the lot as any unused data cannot be rolled over to following months. Extra data can be purchased at $15 per 1GB up to a limit of 5GB.