Why is my iphone 5 using so much data, way more than I ever used before. How do I fix it?

I am using waaaaay more data than ever before since switching to an iphone 5. I have gone over my data plan in just a few days. I used 10g in 2 weeks and I hardly had it on. Help.

If you go to Settings > Cellular and look at "Use Cellular data for" each app will display the amount of cellular data used since you last did "Reset Statistics" on that screen. Also if you tap "System Services" at the bottom of that list of apps it will give details on system usage of cellular data. That may help you identify the culprit.

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driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.30 GHz
available frequency steps: 2.30 GHz, 2.30 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.40 GHz, 1.20 GHz, 1000 MHz, 800 MHz
available cpufreq governors: conservative, powersave, ondemand, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 2.30 GHz.
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within this range.
current CPU frequency is 800 MHz.
cpufreq stats: 2.30 GHz:0,02%, 2.30 GHz:0,05%, 1.80 GHz:0,05%, 1.60 GHz:0,03%, 1.40 GHz:0,01%, 1.20 GHz:0,16%, 1000 MHz:0,38%, 800 MHz:99,29% (1017)
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25500 MHz max turbo 3 active cores
25500 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
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