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i just moved to the us, and I'm really wondering where on earth you can find more expensive service than here.
by rjzzleep 14y ago
i just moved to the us, and I'm really wondering where on earth you can find more expensive service than here.
- pyre 14y agoCanada, where the competition is even less.
- westicle 14y agoAdd Australia to that list, where you can pay $80 per month for a connection with a 50GB download limit. http://www.telstra.com.au/internet/home-broadband-bigpond-elite-plans/ http://www.telstra.com.au/internet/home-broadband-bigpond-el...
- kalleboo 14y agoAt least Australia has a good excuse - they have to pull wires underwater for many miles to get any connectivity, so there's some scarcity there. The U.S. is the hub of the internet, the costs must be the lowest.
- Evbn 14y agoThe US is much less dense than Europe and East Asian.
- pyre 14y agoI really view the "US is less dense" argument with a grain of salt. If it were true, then we would have awesome connections within highly populated cities, and it would maybe just be the suburbs or rural areas that were complaining. As it stands, everyone is complaining, with the exception of a handful of suburbs across the nation that got experimental FIOS roll-outs.
- beagle3 14y agoEthiopia. Yes, I've discovered the same. In Germany, $25/month gets you unlimited mobile minutes, text and web with no contract. And something like $25 gets you serious broadband internet. In the US, mobile costs 4 times as much, internet "only" twice. And most Americans think that the US market is actually healthy. It's not in anything resembling telecomm, education, finance or healthcare.