[geon]

Exactly.

Assuming she had downloads running non-stop during the 4 months, at a maximum of 7 mbps (3g), she would have downloaded 8859 GB. With a $193000 bill, the "significant theft" was Telestra charging $22 per GB.

[Natsu]

Someone else looked up Telstra pricing and got an estimate of 90GB.

http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/plans/phone_plan.html

They charge more like $2/MB. Sadly, Australia absolutely sucks in terms of internet access costs.

[caf]

I am sure the power company is far happier paying $22 per GB than $20 per month per meter.

[Padraig]

I'm getting very different numbers... I may be wrong though?

(7,000,000/8) = 875,000 bytes/s = 0.834 MB/s

0.834 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 72,057 MB/day

(EDIT: Tweaked numbers, had mistyped 0.834 as 0.844 — doesn't affect the point)

[russell_h]

Your number looks the same, 72GB/day = 8,859GB over 4 months.

[Padraig]

Right, sorry.