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It depends entirely on the plan you get. I'm from the UK and pay £5 for unlimited data, which admittedly is better than most plans here.
Which plan/network do you have?
I'm on Three, 600mins, unlimited SMS and data.
The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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Yes, “national security” is used to justify all manner of protectionism in this country. We sure love our oligopolies.
You know, with the amount of data some companies and governments are slurping up it might almost be justified... of course as a 5 eyes nation it's also pretty damn hypocritical.
> You know, with the amount of data some companies and governments are slurping up it might almost be justified
Which is why Bell Canada not peering at TorIX (and other Canadian IXPs) really annoys me. (Rogers, Telus, Cogeco, TekSavvy, etc, do.)
* https://www.cira.ca/improving-canadas-internet/initiatives/c...
Even major cloud hosting companies (AWS, Digital Ocean, OVH) have Canadian build-outs for folks that are sensitive to domestic/international issues, and yet if connect with Bell your traffic tends to go to Chicago and then back.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but you are clearly cherrypicking data. 1Gb of internet in Australia ($0.68) is fantastic value compared to 1Gb of internet in Canada ($12.55). Australia's mobile data network is competitive on quality, and is amongst the fastest in the world.
> Australia's mobile data network is competitive on quality, and is amongst the fastest in the world. Really? That hasn’t been my experience — and granted I’ve never lived in Australia or spent much time out of Sydney but I was there for 10 days in February and even though I paid for 4G Plus or whatever Optus calls LTE, speeds weren’t even comparable to what I can get in the US and were truly behind what I got in Seo…
Not sure where the data comes from but in my experience mobile data is very expensive in Australia
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#384One of the things that frustrates me about apps/web is that most people have no idea what individual apps/sites are “costing” them. Without additional tools and watching Cellular Data settings like a hawk, stupid things can slurp up your data plan. Entire books could be sent to people in a sane format but a 3-line web page wrapped in garbage takes dozens of megabytes? An app that does “very little” is consuming 100 M…
> One of the things that frustrates me about apps/web is that most people have no idea what individual apps/sites are “costing” them It's not an issue with web apps but issue with outdated bandwith limiting.
Wireless frequencies are a limited resources and bandwidth will always be metered, more so if lazy devs ignore efficiency.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#386In Shanghai I pay $11 per month for 16GB mobile data plus a 50M broadband at home. I pay a bit more than that for the cloud VMs on which I install VPN services.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#387Taiwanese here, I think Taiwan's data is inaccurate. Our mobile carriers have a "unlimited" plan, which you can actually use unlimited data. The price of the plan varies a lot, but my unlimited plan only costs 499TWD/m(16.9USD/m), and I use nearly 50GB per mounth. But I'd like to mention there is no such as unlimited texts here, only unlimited data. I think this is why SNS is preferred over SMS and iMessage.
True. There might be other more expensive contracts, but most people in Taiwan that I know either have a "real" unlimited data contract for like 17 USD per month or a "fake" unlimited contract (with like 25GB and reduced but still acceptable speeds afterwards) for about 14 USD per month. One example provider would be Tstar.
Nobody uses SMS anymore.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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Misleading. You didn't do five minutes of research. Singtel (the most expensive telco) has multiple plans for visitors (100GB for $12 + 500mins talk + 1GB roaming + $3 to spend on public transport). If you want prepaid month to month, it's still nowhere in the stratosphere of $10/GB. Also 4G coverage is virtually 100%, buildings and Faraday cages aside. (source: living in Singapore for 10 years, through 3G to 4G migr…
Nope, those are for tourists. I am not a tourist. I've lived there long enough to know what the rates are. This is from Singtel Hi menu: https://i.imgur.com/z6WmqYx.png Notice it says "Data plans" - They give you only data and claim to give you free incoming only for 20 days as a bonus. That's not even a bonus, in India, you pay nothing for incoming, at least on the Airtel plan I mentioned. Also, about your point on…
I'm a Singapore citizen and I've used my Singapore passport to get the tourist SIM cards from M1 before, did some store refuse to sell it to you?
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#390I think the comparisons could also use some normalization with respect to per capita income (mean, mode, median?). 1 USD in the US doesn't mean the same thing as 1 USD in China.
From the consumers' perspective, it's about affordability, not absolute cost.