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A random sampling of internet service prices around the world
- namanaggarwal 6y agoI think this sampling is not good enough. Tikona is not even close to being a major player in India. I am paying 3.5$/month for a 4G connection with 1.5 GB data every day.
- lostlogin 6y agoWhile that is a very good price, it is a limit that I would find it hard to keep to having had an uncapped connection. I pay 14x that price but use 20-120x that data cap.
- rudiv 6y agoYou use 30-150GB a day on your cell phone? I had unlimited data for a long time and realized I used little.more than half a gigabyte per day unless I was away from home & office (in a different city etc.)
- lostlogin 6y agoNo, home connection. Sorry I assumed you meant that data was used for cell and home usage.
- larrysalibra 6y agoA data point from Hong Kong: HK$138/m (US$17.80) for 1 gigabit (symmetric) fiber HK$160/m (US$20.64) for unlimited LTE deprioritized after 20gb
- mrslave 6y agoImagine how slow that will be after it's great firewalled. No wonder there's protests in the streets!
- lostlogin 6y agoMaybe - the UK seems to be going to give residency to millions of Hong King residents. Even if a small percentage of them take that offer up, that could be a decent population drop. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-chinas-security-law-violates-hong-kong-agreement-71550723 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-chinas-sec...
- Ecco 6y agoThe data in there is incomplete at best. I have AT&T fiber in the US (line 3) and it's around $80, definitely NOT $39.
- the_pwner224 6y agoFor all the big companies like ATT, Comcast, their internet prices are based only on how much of a monopoly they have in the local area. When a qualified competitor moves in (if they are even able to after well-funded resistance from the big company) prices become much more competitive. Or at least that's what I've heard many anecdotes of on the internet. Paying $140 for 300/25 internet + TV in Chicago, $10 difference between the 100/200/300/600/gigabit tiers.
- macNchz 6y agoProbably some kind of promotional rate situation. My 400/20 Spectrum cable connection is $45 for two years and then goes up to $70. (Edit: indeed they seem to be offering a $39.99 promo rate, marked down from $60 https://www.att.com/offers/advert/fiber/localoffer/ https://www.att.com/offers/advert/fiber/localoffer/) Also on my last cable account I randomly went on the website to see what their current rates were, and noticed they were offering 2x the speed to new subscribers for the same I was paying. I called to ask about it and they told me the faster plan was the default but that I’d been grandfathered into the slower plan (thanks!), but that they could upgrade me if I wanted. It must be intentional that speeds and prices are super opaque.
- Multicomp 6y agoSame here, maybe 10 USD cheaper depending on the month. I looked out because my house is one of the last three that they have fiber going to (aerial). I don't know why they stopped rolling out the fiber halfway down the street, but they did. Luckily for me I was able to get away from terrible Comcast gigabit.
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- speedgoose 6y agoIn France, Free just announced up to 5000mbs down and 700mbs up for 40€. Orange has 2000mbs down and 600mbs up for 50€, and may have better peering in general.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoIs that really 2 gigabit down? Insane! You have to buy some serious gear to even be able to use that!
- lostlogin 6y agoAnd when you have that gear, what is it used for? Obviously businesses can, but a home user? Even with an appetite for movies etc you would have filled your drives in no time.
- bergstromm466 6y ago> filled your drives in no time What do you mean?
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoNot OP. With 2Gbps you can theoretically fill a 1TB drive in just over an hour.
- bergstromm466 6y agoshhh i was trying to get him to admit to Hollywoord movie piracy...
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- speedgoose 6y agoIt's used to download things faster, not necessarily all the time.
- njacobs5074 6y agoSurely there's another factor here, which is indexing that cost to the average monthly income for the associated country.
- tgvaughan 6y agoDefinitely agree with this. Although doing anything else would be way harder (impossible?), straight up comparison of prices after currency conversion is really only of use to tourists.
- BuildTheRobots 6y agoIt doesn't seem to differentiate between FTTC and FTTP fibre which has dramatic differences (74mbit vs gigabit), and most of the UK is still currently stuck with FTTC.
- tomalpha 6y agoOne of my pet peeves is Fibre To The Cabinet being marketed as Fibre. Yes there's a fibre optic cable in there somewhere, and it terminates a bit closer to my home than old fashioned DSL, but it's still fundementally DSL. It's just a slightly shorter length of copper wire.
- samoa42 6y agoindeed hilarious. then again there would be practically no fibre penetration without this "hack" ;-)
- NullPrefix 6y agoIf you install fibre between your computer and your router, which connects through dial-up, does it counts as fibre internet? Demarcation line might come into play, so you could sell that fibre to your neighbour and market it to him as proper fibre, since it's all that he's seeing
- samoa42 6y agoexactly :-D
- hadrien01 6y agoIn the UK you call that Fibre Broadband, but it's just VDSL2. It's classified as DSL in most countries.
- globular-toast 6y agoMuch of the UK is still stuck with copper. Until quite recently some (Milton Keynes) were stuck with aluminium! Thatcher's legacy...
- Jemm 6y agoDoesn't show data caps which are common in Canada.
- hyko 6y agoWhy is a “random sample” the right tool to determine Internet Service prices around the world?
- checkyoursudo 6y agoIn northern Sweden, I get 30 down and I think like 3 or 5 up for approx. 35 USD/mo. I live in a very small town with only DSL available, or I guess 4G modem with very low cap but I don't think I know anybody who uses that. In the nearest city, I think some friends recently got set up with 300 down for maybe 50-60 USD/mo. For my family of 4, 30 down is okay most of the time. I don't have teenagers yet though, so ...
- runj__ 6y agoBahnhof has 10000 Mbit/s for 399SEK (45USD) in Stockholm. I doubt I would really need it though.
- NicoJuicy 6y agoBelgium: 40€ / month ( Scarlet: cheapest for internet ( unlimited) + digital tv) Most expensive ~100€/month ( Telenet: internet + TV )
- alex_young 6y agoA year ago in southern Switzerland I was paying $40 for 10 GB symmetrical fiber. There was a $30 option through another carrier, but you get what you pay for right?
- jwalton 6y ago> The only types of Internet service plans shown in the table are DSL and fiber optic cable plans. Since cheapskatesguide.org is about finding the best deals, I excluded from consideration categories of Internet services that I feel are not good deals. Do you guys have especially rubbish cable internet in the US? Or especially amazing DSL? Cable is much better where I am in Into than DSL.
- danaris 6y agoNot at all. At least around here, cable internet goes up into the hundreds of Mbps, while DSL tops out around...10, I think? for prices that are roughly comparable. Excluding cable internet seems like a really terrible idea if you're trying to compare prices for broadband in the US. Edit: units
- bluntfang 6y agoDo you mean Mbps?
- milankragujevic 6y agoThis has always bothered me, why is DSL so bad in the USA? A part of that is due to thin twisted-pair phone wiring, which is 26AWG instead of 20AWG (0.8mm)[1] in parts of Europe, and presumably because the country is huge[2], but still, I get better service over DSL than cable (in Eastern Europe) because DSL is a dedicated connection from the CPE (modem) to the DSLAM (the central office equipment). Most of the congestion is on the last-mile network from the CO to the customer premises, so having a dedicated link provides a much more stable connection. DOCSIS works over CATV cable, which is a shared medium and it is not electrically isolated, so i.e. neighbors can create noise for you if they have badly designed or malfunctioning devices. VDSL2 35b supports up to 300/100 Mbps for local loops of 300m or less (984 feet), and 35b degrades gracefully to VDSL2 17a for up to 25/4 Mbps at 1300m (0.8 miles). So, in densely populated areas, xDSL would work much better than cable, for people who want a stable connection. Cable is oversold and can provide a small percent of the speed sold at any time, but usually 90% of the rated speed is available in off-peak intervals. Additionally, cable has higher ping times than xDSL and more complex CPE that must be controlled by the ISP (even if you buy your own, the CMTS will reprogram it with a configuration file on boot, and the ISP can open any backdoor they want). Compared to this, DSL CPE can be bought from anywhere and used on any network without ISP interference because DSL is a dedicated medium so there is no trusted part of CPE needed to limit the speed to the user, compared to cable where the CM must have a "trusted" part that the user can't control which will do access control, encryption and also QoS and speed limiting. [1] thinner wires have higher attenuation on high frequencies and/or longer distances [2] sparsely populated area usually means higher average local loop length
- gverrilla 6y agoIt's not viable to look only at raw price, because these ISP are amongst the most aggressive price marketing companies. They have bundles, they have 3, 4, sometimes 6 months promotions for new users, they negotiate a lot, etc
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- aflat 6y agoWhy isn't Verizon on the list? And where can I sign up for Verison it seems like a pretty good deal: USA Verison - $39.99 200 Fiber
- ninkendo 6y agoThe idea that any particular internet service is available at some price/speed in "The USA" is just wrong on the face of it. ISP availability varies on a house by house basis, let alone individual streets/towns/counties/states.
- milankragujevic 6y agoA datapoint for Serbia: (prices are sampled per tier, there are more combinations possible) Telekom Srbija (incumbent national provider) (note: all prices with 24 month contract, 6.48$/mo mandatory landline fee should be added, VAT is included) - 20/4 Mbps on VDSL2 - 16.69$/mo - 100/10 Mbps on VDSL2 - 23.58$/mo - 200/80 Mbps on GPON - 33.40$/mo - 1000/400 Mbps on GPON - 88.41$/mo Orion telekom (alternative provider) (note: all prices with 24 month contract, VAT is included) - 10/1 Mbps on WISP/ADSL2+ - 14.73$/mo - 100/10 Mbps on VDSL2 - 18.66$/mo "Special" offer without contract for GPON: - 200/10 Mbps - 9.83$/mo - 500/20 Mbps - 14.74$/mo - 1000/50 Mbps - 24.57$/mo Average monthly wage is 589$, minimum is 294$, yearly minimum 3528$, average 7068$.
- miguelrochefort 6y agoCanada tops the chart, as expected.
- yboris 6y agoUSA suburb in New Jersey: $80/month for cable internet 5Mbps. No alternatives - unless you call $70/month DSL a competitor.
- dmtroyer 6y agough I'm sorry. that's awful.
- KoftaBob 6y agoWhere in NJ is this? That's gotta be at least semi-rural. The NJ suburbs near NYC have Verizon Fios 200mbps for $40/m.
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- yboris 6y agoCentral Jersey - 40 miles away from NYC. No Fios available :(
- yboris 6y agoSorry -- small correction "5 MBps" -- "40 Mbps"
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- wastedhours 6y agoFor fast and cheap you can't overlook Romania, in the cities I've been in, the speed has been exceptional and reliable (which is more than I can say for most British internet, excluding the FTTH our current flat has). E.g. https://www.digiromania.ro/servicii/internet/internet-fix/fiberlink-1000 https://www.digiromania.ro/servicii/internet/internet-fix/fi...
- tn890 6y agoI have that subscription. 8.3 Euros/9.6USD per month for 1000/500 FTTH. Reliability is stellar. I’ve had this package for 6 years at least, in 3 different cities. It’s been the same everywhere.
- EB-Barrington 6y agoData point from Ukraine (Kyiv): Unlimited data mobile 4G costs 100UAH per month (~9 EUR / ~$11 USD). Fast enough that a 300GB backup/recovery is no problem. Home internet I don't actually pay for (I live in a rental), but the current plan costs the owner 200 UAH per month (~6 EUR / ~$7 USD), "gigabit port", unlimited data (realistic speed is up to 250 up/down). Pretty sure there is some kind of "combo deal" for both, and I think the home internet price includes TV. At these low prices, I'm not really interested in shopping around or checking the details of what I'm actually paying for - it's all incredibly cheap and fast enough.
- bane 6y agoNotice the price in Japan, which is an island and so all in/out-bound traffic has to go through undersea cables. Similar story for South Korea, which for all purposes is also basically an island. It's actually not even entirely uncommon for people to not have dedicated home internet and just get unlimited, unmetered, mobile service and tether when at home or use a wireless puck -- like bandwidth heavy users of streaming video. The last time we were in those areas, our AirBnBs also didn't have home internet/Wifi. The hosts just provided a puck that we were allowed to take with us wherever we went and just tether to it while in a backpack. Even though we have Google Fi, it saved a ton on mobile data and offered full 4g data speeds literally every place we went.
- nroets 6y agoHere in South Africa, I pay $17 for 40 GB of 4g data. And I can transfer some of that to another prepaid SIM. That way, I kept one of my couch surfing online for a month. It hardly cost me anything, but it was invaluable to him when he hitchhiked for a month.
- ex_amazon_sde 6y agoA cost / speed scatterplot would be nice. Even better on a service like fast.com
- nroets 6y agoAnd a second article for the price of mobile data
- lacksconfidence 6y agoCould use another metric, "number of big macs" or whatever to help compare what the amount of $ is worth in the local market.
- brensmith 6y agoAgreed! Another metric to add might be $/Mb/Month. That way it's easy to compare disparate speeds.
- chrismeller 6y agoYou can get 500/500 fiber for like €35/m in Estonia (if you bundle with your phone). Gigabit for the €50 range. That sounds great, but considering the average salary is about €1500/m it’s actually really shit.
- elipsey 6y agoWow, where exactly can I get those prices? I'm in downtown SF and it's $80 not including tax for 200x20 cable. I also don't have the rental fee because I argued with them through three hours and two of my own modems until they finally auth'd my MAC address. This is the best/cheapest connection I have had; my last connection in NY was 20x5 for $96/mo, also with my own modem. The cable company often tries to sell me a contract TV plan, in exchange for a small temporary package discount, but I un-want TV, so this is not appealing. Also, I hear that in some countries you can't advertise prices that omit tax and surcharges, but here you can. So I think the US prices in the table are basically fake, where the real prices are about ~2x in my experiance. Just curious whether the prices in other countries are real. Like can you really get internet for the equivalent of 30-40USD/mo?
- frockington1 6y agoSF and NYC are two of the most regulated and taxed cities, so probably safe to say the are on the high side. I'm in Ohio, internet is around $50/month, could be cheaper if I wanted less bandwidth
- elipsey 6y agothe tax is $4 of the bill, and i bet cable is a regulated monopoly in your city too. if you don't believe me, try starting an isp :p
- 112012123 6y agoDepends heavily on your building. At my last downtown SF building, I paid ~$40/month for a symmetric gigabit fiber line.
- elipsey 6y agolol i'm moving soon, which building?
- mooman219 6y agoThis article's dubiousness feels like the news effect, where if the news reports on something in your domain then you can tell it's complete garbage, but when they switch topics they're suddenly reputable again. I'm doubtful that any of these prices are representative of what the majority of the population has access to.