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> The standard mobile phone plan in Finland comes with unlimited data, and carriers differentiate their services based on speed. Meanwhile in Germany, provider
by vmp 10y ago
> The standard mobile phone plan in Finland comes with unlimited data, and carriers differentiate their services based on speed.
Meanwhile in Germany, providers ask ~8 euros per month for a 14.4-50 Mbit/s "flatrate" with 1Gb traffic limit... they do provide "unlimited" traffic as advertised but once you consume more than that you are restricted to ISDN speeds (about 64kbit/s). The marketing guys came up with the word "high-speed volume" so they don't need to refer to this as a "limit".
Really scummy practices if you ask me. :(
Although the average person may be content with 1Gb of data per month, what use could 64kbit/s have in 2016 (other than texts and narrowband voip ("Call your friends like its 1999™")?
- Gracana 10y agoSame in the US. It amazes me that it's legal, it doesn't match any reasonable interpretation of the word.
- ioltas 10y agoJapan is getting to that as well these days. A couple of companies are popping up, outlining that they get the price down with such offers while maintaining the connection speed... Up to a certain limit.
- germanier 10y agoGerman carriers paid more than 700 € per resident (including non-users like children and elderly) during multiple spectrum auctions in the last 16 years just for the right to transmit mobile internet over the air – much more than in most other places (US carriers paid less than half per resident as far as I know, Austrian less than a fifth). That money has to be earned somewhere.