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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by blocked_again on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:56AM (#19311322)
I live in India only. 1.5GB per day wont even last you through 5 HD YouTube videos. Its a good plan for people who are conservative with their Internet usage. I would probably believe 1 million users with fibre connection wasting their data just for bragging. Definitely not the people who are on 1.5 GB data plan.
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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by zambal on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:59PM (#19312534)
HD videos take a lot of bandwidth. Spotify's default quality (I guess the highest you can get with the free tier) is only 96kbps. So if you stream that 24 hours a day it takes:

(96 / 8) * 3600 * 24 / (1024 * 1024) = 0.99GB

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