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51 euros per gigabyte is absurd.

• kalleboo 9y ago
  They used to be charging multiple euros per MEGABYTE. You can see why regulation was needed.
• catdog 9y ago
  7.7 EUR/GB is still absurd, it's 2017.
  • amelius 9y ago
    That's 77 euro for 10GB. For that money you can buy a 1TB harddrive, send it by mail, and it will be faster still.
    • chmod775 9y ago
      You'll have to use one hell of a postal service since 200mbit/s LTE is common now (1TB will take around 12h).
      • xxs 9y ago
        LTE in EU, not so much :), it's available just now widely adopted
• seuss1969 9y ago
  You think €51 per GB is absurd? I have a Vodafone prepaid connection from Germany. Currently traveling in Switzerland, Vodafone informed me my roaming data charges are 17ct per 50 Kb. A little back of the envelope calculation and that puts my rate at €3.500 per GB. Now that's an absurd value!!
  • krrrh 9y ago
    I'm curious if that was postpaid. My prepaid Vodafone data started working EU-wide without extra charges just over a year ago. > Gut zu wissen: Du nutzt Deine Highspeed-MB mit Deinem CallYa-Tarif ohne Aufpreis in der ganzen EU. Falls Du den Basispreis oder Deine Tarif-Option nicht zahlst, kostet ein MB 5,95 Cent.
    • tpm 9y ago
      Switzerland is not in the EU
    • seuss1969 9y ago
      Switzerland is not in EU, so the prices for there are not regulated. As a result on my prepaid CallYa plan, I have insane charges when roaming here.
• efdee 9y ago
  I think when I (a European) visit the US, my roaming cost is about 15 euro per MB. You read that right, MB. Not GB.
• Fnoord 9y ago
  It is. In 2008 I downloaded 30 MB Firefox nightly on a ThinkPad whilst roaming in Serbia. Bad move. Set me back ~600 EUR. I didn't know this beforehand, but I was 'lucky' to struck a deal with Vodafone to cut the cost in half. Serbia isn't in EU though, and this was in 2008.