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From reading the comments, it appears that most of the prices on this website are wrong for most people. They might be taking either the worst-case price or the
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
From reading the comments, it appears that most of the prices on this website are wrong for most people. They might be taking either the worst-case price or the least value data plan (500MB starter plans) instead of the average data plan.
These cost analyses are always popular for people to brag about how much cheaper their country's data plans or broadband speeds are, but I seriously doubt that many Canadian Redditors are paying $0.17 for every page load. Simply browsing the front page and clicking on a few comment sections could cost $10 or more. Doesn't pass the sniff test.
- ivirshup 5y agoBut they claim: > Because these numbers are based on the least expensive plan, they are best case scenarios. Which is... a weird statement. Best case scenario for what? The cheapest plan is the best case if you wanted to access the site once per billing period. But then price per visit is the cost of plan? I don't know what they're trying to say here.
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoGood catch. The cheapest plan is almost always the worst cost per GB. It seems they’ve crossed terms and chosen the opposite of what they wanted to represent.
- greenshackle2 5y agoI'm in Canada, it's true that telcos are expensive here but $0.17 for 1.39MB is like $120 per GB which is absurd. I pay $40 for 8GB/month (USD). Even additional data (if you go over plan limits), which is by far the most expensive way to get data, is less than that, it's $104 per GB with my provider.