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"Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me." I basically travel non-stop. And wherever I land, I receive a message. "Welcome to India we got you covered" "Welcome to Russia we got you covered" "Welcome to China we got you covered" "Welcome to France we got you covered" "Welcome to Uganda we got you covered" I can live with 10 US$/GB
It's really amazing. Only countries I've ever visited without Fi support were Iran and Ethiopia. Even in Iraq and Myanmar, Fi worked great. Your traffic also automatically goes through Fi's VPN, which unlike ExpressVPN and most other big commercial ones, has never in my experience been blocked by China.
Won't work in Cuba or North Korea too I am sure.
If it is a family plan, does this affect just the user who exceeded the 15gb limit or does data get throttled for all users in the plan.
Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me. For comparison, I have 20GB + unlimited call/texts for 10e/month, with optional 2e/GB recharges, and that's not even the cheapest available offer
Indian prices for comparison: https://shop.vodafone.in/shop/prepaid/special-offers.jsp?Typ...
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A T-mobile family plan with unlimited data (throttled after 2GB) comes out to ~$25/month. If that didn't exist, I'd look into Google Fi.
Sounds like you got a rare deal, everything I'm seeing online says it's $70-$40 per line depending on how many lines you have.
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Worth noting that specifically for Google Fi * the $10/GB quote is pay as you go - unused data does not magically expire at the end of the billing cycle. While one can probably find a better promotional deal with a US carrier, those unclaimed gigabytes are unlikely to "roll over" to the next month. * the rate is valid for any of Fi's international partners across 170 countries. Other US operators are likely to hit th…
Also worth noting: once you cross 6GB, they stop billing. Basically, your bill is capped at $80 + taxes, so that one month that you end up using 250 GB doesn't cost you $2500, it costs $80.
It's literally impossible to reach 250GB without paying extra. After being throttled the most you'd be able to download is 82.94GB, assuming you were downloading things non-stop at the maximum speed for 30 days.
Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me. For comparison, I have 20GB + unlimited call/texts for 10e/month, with optional 2e/GB recharges, and that's not even the cheapest available offer
I essentially never use data. I haven't used more than 50mb in years because I am always within wifi range or only using my phones for SMS and phonecalls. I don't know why cellphone service is so expensive in the US, but it seems difficult to find anything cheaper than $20 a month. Typical plans here for a single user and ~10gb of data is going to be $40-$60 a month.
I suspect size has a lot to do with it. The US is the 3rd largest country in the world. Sure, Canada is bigger but at almost 1/10th the people and I suspect the country has far less coverage than the US.
Just look at coverage maps for the US then keep in mind how many square miles you're looking at and you can easily think "yeah, that can be expensive".
Yeah, they're pocketing a lot of profit and mostly relying on government funding to expand their networks but still, I just don't think we could go as cheap as laces like India.
The way the FCC handles spectrum also doesn't help.
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Same question. I live in France, I'm subscribed to the most expensive operator (Orange), and even then I get unlimited call/text and 10 Gigabytes of data (in 4G) for less than 25 € per month (~roughly 28 dollars). These prices look like a joke to me, but it might be a US thing.
France prices are only due to Free mobile. Before they came up with their 20€ a month plan with unlimited everything, the other operators mobile plans had prices similar to the US, 60 to 80 € a month for unlimited everything. There was rumors of free mobile acquiring T-Mobile sometime last year, that would have been awesome for US consumers... That same 20€/mo plan gives 25GB of data to use abroad, which makes projec…
German prices are still weirdly high, mind you.