[angry_octet]

Which country are you speaking of where people turn off data (to save money presumably)?

Signal used to be TextSecure, and there is a fork which still supports encrypted SMS.

[diaz]

To save money, battery and potentially protect weird apps trying to abuse the use of internet on background. Have heard and seen so many justifications for it. Barely know people that have internet 100% of time on. Somewhere in Europe ;)