Somehow burned through 9 GB of data usage overnight?

This past cycle, I upped my data allowance even more because every month we seemed to be getting crazy overage charges which made no sense.... nevermind the fact that we weren't getting the text notifications of usage.  I spoke with someone and the notifications started happening as they should.  On the 15th of June I got a notification that we were at 90% of our 16 GB allowance, ending on the 16th.  Yet I just looked at my bill, and somehow we used 23 GB of data.  How did we go from roughly 14 GB on the 15th to 23 GB by the end of the 16th?  There was no streaming of music or movies, no games, no files downloaded, no nothing.  Every month I have had the sneaking suspicion that we're being over-billed, because no matter how closely I monitor (or what our phones say for usage), we still get whacked with overages.  We have an iPhone 5C, an older android (with no apps like facebook or pandora installed), and the mobile broadband system.

If you look at the Data Log under your detailed usage you should be able to find which device is using the largest amount of data. Look at the 15th and 16th on all of your devices Data Log and you'll even get an approximate time of when it was used.

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