Making Cents: Plan on being smart about your phone charges

MOBILE phones are our cameras, video recorders, sat-navs, social diaries and fitness trackers – for many of us, taking and receiving actual phone calls is the activity we use our phone for least, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

Most of us admit we’d be lost without them, but all this activity comes at a cost.

There are several ways to keep mobile phone charges down.