Data overages since updating to iOS 6 - fixed and solution

How do I go from 300mb per month for the past year to 3 gigs in one month? iOS 6 and podcasting being removed from the OS.
After updating my 4s with iOS 6, my data usages more than quadrupled from 300-400mb per month in the past year to 3 gigs in a month since updating. My usage was the same. So I decided to monitoring my daily usage and made it a point not to use the 3g and was getting 100-200 mb a day in usage still.  Then I realized that ever since podcasting was removed from the OS and made into an seperate app it was checking and downloading podcasts automatically even when wifi wasnt available
I did the following and my usage is back to normal again.
Setting>Podcasts> Turn off Sync Subscription and Turn off Use Cellular Data (I had this turn off, even when I was getting overages)
Also do the following:
Launch the Podcast App
Go to Library>>For each podcast> Expand the settings by clicking the "right arrow" next to podcast name and uncheck auto-download. There seems to be a bug that when "Auto-Download" is check it downloads whenever a podcast is available even though iOS 6 was told not use cellular data for downloading in the setting above. I also think the app is refreshing and check for new episodes through the 3G as well
I now go into each Podcast and manually download each new episode when I am near a wi-fi connection (Make sure the 3G icon is replace by the wifi icon on your iphone).
You can still force the podcast to use 3G by manually downloading them when wifi isnt available.
Hope this helps and they fix it.
AT&T told me before I figured it out, it was not their problem and apple told me there are no issues with sudden overages with iOS 6.
Happy Podcasting,
Bang P.

Apple told you there are no excessive data usage issues with IOS6?  Haha, that's typical, did you tell them to simply search their discussion forums for "IOS6 excessive data usage"?  They'll discover massive amounts of people complaining about this very issue, including myself.  But that's Apple for you, never admitting to a problem, always pretending to be perfect.  Meanwhile, millions of users are going to be shocked when they get their November bills and notice they've incurred excess data charges.  Thanks Apple, after the maps fiasco I thought you couldn't get any worse, I guess I was wrong.

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