On: Hundreds of Verizon customers are battling data over-limit fees

[Johnny555]

For what it's worth, my usage reported by Verizon is typically within about 5% of what my phone reports. I just double checked and right now Verizon says I've used 2345MB and my phone says 2.26GB.

[gregrata → Johnny555]

That's 2.35 GB vs 2.26GB - how is that 5%

[Lazare → gregrata]

Is this sarcasm or...?

The difference between those two numbers is 0.09 GB. 0.09 is 3.8% of 2.35, or 4.0% of 2.26, so whichever way you look at it, it would be correct to say the difference is "within 5%".

[ars → Lazare]

He read it as 5% of (like 2 is 5% of 40) instead of within (i.e. accurate).

[dmckeon → Lazare]

The difference is even smaller if GB are power-of-2 Gibibytes: 2345MB is 2.29GB.

[Flimm → dmckeon]

Verizon could be using one definition of GB and the phone another. (One more reason to use the unambiguous MiB, GiB units.)

[fenomas → Lazare]

GP probably missed the "within".