Downloading iCloud songs to play on iPhone when wifi not available uses way too much data

When I am out of town (camping) or away from a wifi site and want to play a song with the iCloud symbol, I have to use a lot of data - I'd like songs to be available to me to play whenever I want without having to download or be near a wifi site...help!

We are in the same boat. Got our daughter a 5S in February, it came with iOS 7.1 and it consistently uses at least double, if not tripple the amount of data that her 4S did (with 7.1 loaded). She uses the same apps that she did before, no more, no less. We have done ALL the tweaks recommended on the various boards, shut off cellular to apps, etc. We have been arguing with AT&T (our provider) and Apple. AT&T states that the usage is the usage and what is being reported by the device. We have been to Apple and had the phone wiped clean and new iOS 7.1 loaded. As a test with the 5S, with everything off cellular except Safari, I reset the statistics to 0 and then went to three websites (google, ask, webcrawler). I then used my personal iphone 4S (on verizon), reset the statistics and went to the same three websites. The 5S used more than double the data that the 4S did to load the same pages.
(I went to the pages first prior to resetting the statistics so that they would be cached)
Can anyone explain this? The Apple Genius tech could not and replaced the device. Guess what..... The new device does the same thing.
I am so disgusted with this whole thing AT&T <----- | -----> Apple....... No answers. Its obviously a problem.. Either Device, iOS (starting with 6) or communication between device and networks (Sim Card?)
Has anyone ever solved this since it arose in 2012??

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