Consumption control gives the user the ability to monitor and configure their devices usage of telephony services.
Status & Team
Requirements
v1
- Data consumption controls
- User can turn mobile data usage ON/OFF
Consumption monitoring Purpose:
- To give the user the ability to, based on credit, make decisions around the use of their services.
v1 Requirement:
- Easily have the user understand the implications of use of telephony service by type.
- A user friendly way of quantifying credit to real-world telephony terms. eg. $xxx equates to x minutes telephony, x messages, x
- Telephony & Messaging
- User can track incoming and outgoing voice minutes
- User can track incoming and outgoing sms and mms messages
- General
- User can adjust warning thresholds for consumption limits
- User can set reset for consumption limits manually or on a scheduled basis
- Telephony & Messaging
- User can track incoming and outgoing voice minutes
- User can track incoming and outgoing sms and mms messages
- Data
- User can restrict heavy-bandwidth interactions (eg: app updates) to specific pre-conditions (eg: "update only when connected to WiFi")
- User can quickly adjust connectivity settings
- User can track data consumption totals (eg: Android's Settings > Data Usage feature)
- User can track data consumption (both total, and per-app)
- User can limit data consumption (both total, and per app)
- User can be warned when close to the limits
- User can be given data consumption options (eg: purchase more minutes via link to carrier site, etc)
v2
Application Controls
Service usage may be further adjusted by in-application settings.
- Wi-fi only toggles
- restrict applications data usage to wifi only
- User initiated usage
- Press to load from server
- Press to Download