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As someone who pays 2€ per month for mobile internet, american mobile phone prices always seem ridiculously high to me. It's very slow after 100MB, but it's st
by legulere 10y ago
As someone who pays 2€ per month for mobile internet, american mobile phone prices always seem ridiculously high to me.
It's very slow after 100MB, but it's still good enough for sending texts and looking up the train connections then.
Is surfing in the internet away from home really worth 2000$ a year?
- glogla 10y agoDepends on where you are. If you're in Eastern or Southern Europe (as the 2€ would indicate), they might pay 2000 USD per year for phone, but they also probably make five or ten times your salary.
- KKKKkkkk1 10y agoI can understand why service prices are tied to locale. If a person in the Bay Area chooses to be a plumber or a chef instead of a software engineer, they need to be paid much more than plumber or a chef in Slovakia. But the cost of providing cell service is largely infrastructure and hardware which is the same everywhere. It seems the reason why prices in the US are so high is government failure to foster competition.
- legulere 10y agoThe 2€ are in Germany, and mobile internet is actually cheaper in some more expensive countries like Sweden.