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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

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Re: South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

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This is actually a really great idea. There should also be universal terminals that people can access on public places or so, even without having a smartphone ready. Now here in Germany we'll wait for decades for this to happen. For some reason Merz gave up on Germany.

Libraries often have publicly usable terminals with Internet access. That's not the case in Germany?

Re: South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

#142

This is actually a really great idea. There should also be universal terminals that people can access on public places or so, even without having a smartphone ready. Now here in Germany we'll wait for decades for this to happen. For some reason Merz gave up on Germany.

Libraries often have publicly usable terminals with Internet access. That's not the case in Germany?

Not everywhere is a library. Today I visited the main city library of Bremen, and it has only media search terminals in kiosk mode. But there is of course free Wi-Fi, so if you have a smartphone, there should be no problem. There are also some libraries with open access 24/7 using a membership card.

Cities have a lot of free wi-fi locations, but outside of urban areas you would need some kind of mobile or landline rate. The latter has relatively cheap flatrates (as little as 20€ including phone flatrate). Mobile access can be much cheaper, but then if your traffic volume is emptied you only get 64 kbit/s.

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