5 ms·
I'm more stunned by the price: I pay 20€ for unlimited and unrestricted data access with a double SIM (one mobile broadband, other for phone). And they want to
by rue 16y ago
I'm more stunned by the price: I pay 20€ for unlimited and unrestricted data access with a double SIM (one mobile broadband, other for phone). And they want to charge more for other video access?
- noamsml 16y agoWhoa. MetroPCS is considered cheap in the USA, as most plans are around 60 a month.
- rb2k_ 16y agoI was shocked too when I came to the US for a few months. In Germany, I just pay 9 cents per SMS/Minute and 10 Euros for a Gigabyte of data (per month). In the US, I had to pay about 50 USD per Month on T-Mobile. It would have been more if I actually told them I had a smartphone ("Nah, I've got an old Nokia, I just want to be able to get eMails").
- dantheman 16y agoI don't know what plan you have, but tmobile for me is 60 a month for unlimited internet, sms, 500 minutes, unlimited nights/weekends.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoWhat plan is that? I'm on tmobile and just upgraded to a Nexus S and all the unlimited internet plans seem to hit 70/mo or above. $30 for unlimited internet, plus $39 minimum for the rest. Would love to grab your plan if possible.
- rb2k_ 16y agoI used the "T-Mobile Even More Plus™ 500 Talk with FlexPay®" and added the featurephone internet "service"... I could only get edge anyway because of t-mobile's weird UMTS frequencies in the USA. I just had to set the proper APN and it worked (only edge, but that's just because I had a European GSM phone) p.s. I used google voice for texting, no need for stupid text message plans
- zacharyvoase 16y agoI’m shocked by how expensive mobile internet is in the US. I’m with giffgaff here in the UK, and I pay £10/month for 250 calling minutes, unlimited SMS and unlimited internet (no fair use policy).
- peterpaul 16y agoYea I was shocked after i moved from germany to the US. Even worse is the coverage here
- jonknee 16y agoPopulation density of Germany is 229 persons per km/sq. In the US it's 32. It's a lot more expensive to run the infrastructure for a country 27 times the geographic area and 1/7th the density.
- irons 16y agoThen explain why there's no EU-comparable regional service in areas of the US with far greater density, like any of the top ten metro areas. Even the cell carriers have large roaming-only gaps and dead zones, not just in the unpopulated western US, but on major freeways in California. Using national population density to explain the extraordinary relative suckage of US broadband is a straw man argument.
- kgermino 16y agoThere are some regional carriers but they're not necessarily well known. Not to mention that at&t, among others, have spent crap-loads of money lobbying to make it more difficult for smaller companies to get spectrum.
- metageek 16y ago>Then explain why there's no EU-comparable regional service in areas of the US with far greater density Because nobody wants regional service? There used to be regional service that was cheaper--I remember my parents signed up for it when they first got cellphones, around 2003--but it lost out in the marketplace, because people would cross a state line and be shocked by the roaming fees.
- dansingerman 16y agoMobile data seems very expensive in the US compared to Europe, but the States seem to be cheaper in most other areas: e.g. Petrol/Gasoline - $3 per gallon in the States, over $8 per gallon in the UK now.
- Tuna-Fish 16y agoMost of Europe taxes gasoline very heavily to encourage alternatives and discourage use. Here in Finland, roughly 75% of the price of gas at the pump is tax. Or in other words, we have a 300% gas tax.
- RK 16y agoMobile data seems very expensive in the US compared to Europe Just don't get on a train for a couple hours and stop in another country. Roaming data rates will kill you in Europe!