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How much of a drag is the high mobile data cost in the US for the technology market ? Or does it even matter ?

• pas 6y ago
  Prices are high because demand is there. The US is cursed with being too rich. The exact same thing happens in healthcare, education, etc. Sure, the rent seeking is enormous in all of these sectors, but to eliminate that faces the usual obstacles.
  • ashishb 6y ago
    Prices of services produced in the USA is high because the USA exports dollars https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-class-politics-of-the-dollar-system https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-class-politics-of-t...
    • Ericson2314 6y ago
      But mobile networking should not be a service in the labor-cost-predominating sense. That said, I'm very glad to see others citing Phenomenal World :),
  • vsskanth 6y ago
    I acknowledge the high prices. I'm just wondering what kinds of opportunities this prevents.