Data usage by app?

Hi there,
Is there a way to find out what apps are using your data?
My wife is not a big Internet user but is always reaching her limit in the middle of our billing cycle. It would be good to know what apps are using up her data so that we can manage it better.
Thanks
Tony

All of your apps will use data but just a small amount per minute or two. It varies per application's purpose. From just checking your mail hourly to running a multiplayer game to online date chatting to GPS navigation, each pool a great deal of KBs per few minutes.
There is no application that says this application uses 10 KB a minute or 100 KB a minute. You just have to control which apps you visit. Pretty much you need to avoid just about every application on the iPhone.

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