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On Spain, I'm paying 25€ for 600/600, unlimited calls, a mobile phone line with 3gb of data and 10 hours of calls. $50 for just 1gbps, seems like they can even
by DrJaws 7y ago
On Spain, I'm paying 25€ for 600/600, unlimited calls, a mobile phone line with 3gb of data and 10 hours of calls.
$50 for just 1gbps, seems like they can even make profit from that.
- jeremyjh 7y agoHow much of your taxes is being used to subsidize that rate?
- konstmonst 7y agoNone. Those are private companies that do this. It's the same in Germany. I have a 7 euros/month unlimited calls cell plan but only 500 mb data, which is enough for me. I pay around 25 Euros month for Internet at home. It's fast enough for Steam/Streaming, I don't even know the speed because I stopped caring a while ago.
- anovikov 7y agoIn Russia, 1gbps may be from $3 to $10 per month depending on the place, and it works as such at least throughout Russia maybe falling to 200-300mbps to far off places like the U.S. In Lithuania, i paid 15 EUR a month for 500/500 and it worked perfectly too. U.S. prices are super high - mostly a consequence of most people living in detached houses - long distances and high complexity of wiring. In Russia and Lithuania, most live in Soviet-style apartment blocks - high user density.
- DrJaws 7y agoNothing, those are private companies without subsidies
- rantwasp 7y ago50$ for 1Gps is amazing in the US. I would also suspect that most of this cost will go to running it, not the tech/actual internet bw
- nnq 7y agowith 3gb of data - maybe I'm a weird consumer, but I don't get it what's with this insanely low data caps... while in France I had a 100gb / month 4G data plan for ~20EUR, and couple times I even exceeded those 100 gb! how/what are most people using internet for that they tolerate such small caps?!
- Bedon292 7y agoMy phone is always on WiFi unless I am in my car driving from place to place. I use under 2GB a month, closer to 1GB most months. I can't even comprehend how you would use 100GB of data on a mobile device in a month. My primary internet consumption is sitting at a computer all day long, or a laptop on the couch. The mobile data is just for traffic, slack, email, and news. All my podcasts are downloaded on WiFi, all my music is as well. There is just no reason for me to use any real amount of data while not on WiFi.
- novok 7y agoYou live an urban lifestyle where you commute and travel by train and you don't stay in your suburban palace most of the time when you're not at work. Then you look at youtube videos during that time.
- nnq 7y agouhm, yeah, the sim card was in a mobile "pocket router" and shared to phone(s) + tablet + laptop, and I'm sometimes watching multiple streaming videos at the same time as a way of mixing music (Bach + heavy metal instrumental rocks :P) without bothering to turn video off or to low qual even if I'm not watching it
- ip26 7y agoUnless you're consuming a lot of media, multiple GB is a lot. I have a super cheap plan with 500MB/month. It might sound impossible, but really all I have to do is turn off background mobile data for most apps, which had no business constantly sucking bytes anyway. Bonus, now my battery life is better. If you have no WiFi access it's a somewhat different story, but WiFi is ubiquitous.
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- mbesto 7y agoThat's not how it works. Bandwidth is a shared resource and most people aren't using 1gpbs every second of the day. Profit for telecom providers isn't on a variable basis and therefore unit economics make much less sense.
- narag 7y agoOn Spain, I'm paying 25€... My first reaction was to say that's wrong. Maybe it's just new, but last time I checked, a couple of years ago, there's no way to get a decent land line under 40€. The trick was that the "cuota de línea" is hidden from the listed price. Most of the land lines are owned by Movistar that rents them to Vodafone thieves and other ISPs that consider it an independent expense, as if it's not just a regular cost. Another possibility are time-limited offers. Now it's my landlord who pays so I don't care, but still would like to know where did you find that price.
- DrJaws 7y agoJazztel, everything included You just need to negotiate with them, not just accept the first base offer. https://i.imgur.com/kHDdXZ1.png https://i.imgur.com/kHDdXZ1.png
- narag 7y agoThanks, I had Jazztel years ago and it worked well and they were cheap, but that's better. "Base imponible" suggests that VAT still must be applied though.