Is Your iPhone Partying All Night Without You?
Like many iPhone users, NY Times Columnist David Pogue has been taking a look at his data usage to see what data plan works best for him. What David Pogue found was some odd usage in the middle of the night, and he had to investigate.
According to David Pogue's blog at nytimes.com, he found mysterious data usage between midnight and 3am while he was asleep. He then discussed it with other iPhone users on an online forum and found many other users having the same mysterious traffic. Luckily, as he found, nothing sinister was afoot. Check out the response he got from AT&T spokesperson Mark Siegel:
“What your readers are seeing is a routine update of the daily data activity on their devices—whether the iPhone or other handsets—to ensure billing accuracy. Customers are not charged for any data usage as part of this routine update.”
So for those analyzing you data usage, here's a mystery solved. For those who don't pay that much attention to their traffic, David Pogue's last statement sums it up:
Nothin’ to see here, folks. Let’s keep moving.
