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Keep in mind that prices in France are WAY lower than in the US according to this site. https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/ https://www.cabl
by makapuf 2y ago
Keep in mind that prices in France are WAY lower than in the US according to this site. https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/ https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/ (edit: bad autocorrect)
- pkaye 2y agoAre people paying $6/GB on average in the US?
- reissbaker 2y agoNo, the UK-based website is wrong. There are enormous numbers of plan options in the US, and their sampling methodology was probably bad. You can get reasonably good 5G plans for $1/GB in America; probably cheaper if you're willing to go with smaller/worse providers.
- reissbaker 2y agoWe are discussing the price of smartphones, not the price of data plans. The infographic also seems pretty wrong, FWIW, especially considering that many US plans are uncapped and thus price/GB depends on usage. (There are sometimes, but not always, throttles past large amounts of usage eg 50GB/month, but since most of these plans cost less than $50/month, it seems extremely unlikely that most people are paying $6/GB as the website is claiming.) Verizon's "Visible" brand, for example, offers plans for $25/month with "unlimited" (soft cap at 60GB) data, for an effective $0.41/GB assuming you use up to the throttle limit. Even non-unlimited plans can be quite cheap; T-Mobile, for example, offers prepaid data plans for as little as $1/GB.
- makapuf 2y agoThe site may be wrong and thanks for the inputs. However you can compare it to a French plan of 14€ per month for 140GB (and then throttled) by example and there are maybe cheaper prices per gb.