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"It is fn. expensive when compared to EU prices. Why is that?" In the US, there are only 4 major cell phone carriers and their plans are so similar in price, i
by joesmo 11y ago
"It is fn. expensive when compared to EU prices. Why is that?"
In the US, there are only 4 major cell phone carriers and their plans are so similar in price, it might as well be a monopoly.
- rhino369 11y agoDoes Europe have 4 major competitors in each country? I seriously doubt it. It's probably the opposite. They have three or less true operators and they each have more spectrum at a lower cost. The cheapest option would be a single carrier regulated by government. But they might not upgrade as fast. So we might have super cheap 2g instead of expensive LTE A.
- joesmo 11y agoI forgot to mention the two year contracts which rendered competition essentially meaningless until about two years ago or so.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoWe've got 3 major ones in the Netherlands. There's over a dozen carriers but they all use one of these networks. Not super familiar with the rest of Europe but the larger countries have 4 operators as far as I know, like the UK, Germany, Spain, France... but there's also plenty of smaller countries that have four, like say Greece. Sweden afaik has even 5, and the Ukraine iirc has 6. Anyway it probably has to do with density. I was flabbergasted when I studied in Canada and ended up seeing phone bills that were like 3x my own back home where we have only 3 operators. But it's pretty easy to cover the size of the Netherlands cheaply, as for Canada or say the US... different story. (although in Canada regulation also played a big role, it wasn't a very competitive market)