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I just checked what it is. Isn't it a bit expensive? $70/m for a mobile plan seems ridicilous.
by romanovcode 7y ago
I just checked what it is. Isn't it a bit expensive?
$70/m for a mobile plan seems ridicilous.
- mankyd 7y agoThat's for unlimited data. They offer a prorated, $10/gb plan as well.
- watwatinthewat 7y agoEveryone I know with it does the $20/mo + $10/gb plan. If you don't use more than a gig or two a month, that's close to one of the cheapest plans around. There are some cheaper prepaid plans, though.
- moooo99 7y agoWow, and I thoughtmobile data in Germany was expensive. I pay 8€/m for 4GB. Although the LTE coverage is pretty bad with my provider.
- JCharante 7y agoYeah Data in the US is a bit ridiculous. You can get a GB of data in Vietnam for $0.50. I usually get the 16GB plan but buy it every twenty days.
- moooo99 7y agoYeah I see why prices differ from country to country, but 10$/GB seems ridiculus.
- Someone1234 7y agoUrban parts of the US are subsidizing large rural areas. Almost all plans are 50 state plans, which means you're paying to install and maintain cellphone coverage for mostly corn fields or forests in the middle of nowhere. Check out this map: https://i.redd.it/2b7uoxjoprqz.jpg https://i.redd.it/2b7uoxjoprqz.jpg For costs to come down, you'd need people to adopt single-state or two/three state plans on the East/West coast. But starting such a network would be prohibitively expensive. For example an "only California" plan could likely be very inexpensive and comparable to Europe.
- bluGill 7y agoNobody wants such a plan. I'd buy a 3 state plan - but the 3 states I need covered are different from my neighbors. Most people in the US have some family member living in a different state, and that state must be in their 3 state plan. Then there is the fact that I also need all the states in between in case I drive - I'd pay extra for the national plan (preferentially including Mexico and Canada) just so I don't have to figure out which route I can drive on my yearly road trip.
- moooo99 7y agoThat absolutely makes sense, thank you! However, I was wondering: How good is the LTE coverage across the U.S? Germany has really bad coverage, even along the Autobahn and train tracks with high traffic. And Germany is pretty small when compared to the U.S
- techsupporter 7y ago> For costs to come down, you'd need people to adopt single-state or two/three state plans on the East/West coast. That's interesting because VoiceStream/T-Mobile used to offer that exact plan in various clumps of states. They were called "Neighborhood Plans" and varied by area. In my case, I had a three-state plan covering Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. $50/month, as I recall, for 3,000 minutes, 3,000 SMS, included long distance, roaming across all of those states, and some amount of data that I can't remember. The northeast had a similar one for Maine down to part of Virginia. In the early 2000s, that was a screamingly good deal. Those plans got dumped by the mid-2000s in favor of "unlimited nationwide roaming" and "free long distance to everywhere" and now we don't even think about where our devices work and what it does or doesn't cost to call a given number (or about "calling" in general because I see so many people on cheap mobile service forums who only want a data plan and "I don't need any voice minutes"). I can now get an unlimited-everything plan that works across the entire continental US network of a major LTE carrier for $25-40/month (depending on how many people are in my virtually-constructed "Party"), so at least costs have come down from where they used to be.
- aliceryhl 7y agoI pay $20/mo for a 40 GB plan in Denmark...
- relaunched 7y agosaid no one that lives in the US, ever! It always blows my mind how that whenever you go anywhere in the world, you can get amazing mobile plans (data and call / sms) for $10-$30 dollars per month.
- jayshua 7y agoProbably has something to do with the size. I'd imagine covering a country like Denmark or Ireland is considerably easier and cheaper for a smaller company then covering the US would be.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThe EU and EAA - with a roughly similar land area and population to the US - has free roaming by law. Your French plan is good in Norway. The US could institute a similar regime that'd permit state/local carriers to exist and compete.
- postsantum 7y agoYou would be surprised to see prices for mobile Internet in Russia
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- jelling 7y agoIt's worth it if you travel internationally as you can just show up in (nearly) any country and not get gouged on data. Also, that price isn't bad for the U.S.
- sulekhaholidays 7y agoyes you are right..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxgfWr9FvyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxgfWr9FvyM
- delfinom 7y agoWelcome to America, bend over. $70/month is standard totally not collusion pricing for single line plans.
- LandR 7y agoWow, I get unlimited broadband internet for my home, mobile service (unlimited texts, 1000mins, 2GB data) and my landline for less than that!
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- metasaval 7y agoI also use Google Fi, albeit the $10/gb plan, so my monthly bill is usually around $50-$60. The real reason I stick with it, even though I could get slightly cheaper plans elsewhere, is for international travel. I don't even travel internationally often at all, and I don't consider myself a foodie or world traveller or anything like that. But work is sending me to Taiwan in a couple weeks and it's nice knowing that I'll be able to land and have the same data and text rates as back home. Same for when I went on a cruise to Mexico with my family earlier this year. We landed, Google Fi sent me a text saying "give us a sec." And then a few minutes later I was online, without me having to do anything. Most cellular companies make you pay out the ass in international roaming costs, or if you have an unlocked phone you can get a local sim. The closest company to match this policy is T-Mobile, but their international data is capped at 256kbps unless you pay more.