Downloading from photo stream not limited to wifi

Downloading from photo stream seemed to me to be very active while I was not on a wifi connection.  Due to other people tossing a ton of photos in their shared streams I burned a ton of data and then had to turn off the phone when I realized what was going on.
Have others experienced this? Is there a way to stop it?
I loved the addition of shared streams but this is probably a feature killer for me.

1. Yes. It's 30 days or 1k pics, whichever comes first.
2. I'm not sure about your phone or iPad. I would check on the forum for one of those devices or here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/icloud/icloud_on_my_ios_device
3. No it doesn't do video.
Regards
TD

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