I have all sorts of international roaming perks, but if you actually want that high speed in any other country you still need to buy a sim card in that country.
Fix that, and then we can talk about comparative 1GB costs.
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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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 lived in Singapore and while I was there, I used MyRepublic's mobile plans. The plan I was using was $24(SGD) a month for 17G. Rarely had connectivity issues though for the most part, I stayed in the more populated areas so I may not have had the same connectivity issues as you.
One of the nice things was that each telco would keep changing their plans to be better and better so it paid to pay attention and change plans whenever a better one came along.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meanwhile, Greece with its telecom cartel is a few spots from last, with such good company as Turkmenistan, the Virgin Islands and, for some reason, Canada. I might as well get a SIM shipped to me from Italy every three months or so, it'll be lots cheaper.
What's more funny to the Greek mobile internet comedy (or maybe drama for us greeks) is that before 1 year, after the elections, the new prime minister asked nicely the telecom operators to offer cheaper mobile internet. The operators agreed of course. The result? There were some mocking offers in the form of double GB for the same price right after the meeting (ie instead of 10 euros/1 gb you'd get 10 euros/2 gb). A…
What's the possibility of buying a cheap data SIM-card in Bulgaria (or somewhere else) and using the EU-roaming laws to get cheap data in Greece?
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#344Israeli here, pay 7$ for 200GB of data (well I pay 14$ for 400GB and use one as home internet backup because it is cheap). It used to be quite expensive here at around $100/mo for 10GB but the government broke up the monopoly and forced competition into the market by making existing players share infrastructure. We went up from main 3 providers to around 10 and prices dropped sharply. My government screws up quite a…
In Israel the caller pays for a mobile call, while in other countries the owner of the mobile pays. This one change alone is enough to explain quite a bit of the disparity in prices. I'm actually surprised the source article makes no mention of this.
At least an example of one "other country" would be nice. Never heard of such practice, even though I was working in different countries of Europe and Asia
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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And let's not forget being assumed to be a spammer by almost all sites, getting rate limited or shadowbanned, not to mention being buried with captchas and having to do unpaid labor to train Google's AI just to access some sites! If you're not outright blocked, that is. All for having an IP address originating from such regions with cheap internet that you can't do much with anyway.
Oh yeah, I have experienced that for a lot of my life. I didn't realize that that wasn't normal, though. I haven't experienced Canadian internet for long enough. However, I can definitely say that I have had to solve a lot of captchas and can recall at least one incident where I could only have been banned because I was from Pakistan.
It happens often on Reddit, which is really bad with their shadowbanning and associating you with other accounts that you have nothing to do with, probably because crappy ISPs reuse IP addresses for multiple users.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#346I'm Italian and I pay ~9 euros per month for 130 GB of uncapped 4G mobile Internet, so I can't really complain about it. Some new offers I've seen are as low as 6.99 for 100 GB + infinite calls. A few days ago I told this to a friend of mine who lives in the UK and he was shocked because he pays a lot more for like 2GB a month. I guess healthy competition can really be good for consumers when it works as it is suppos…
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.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh yeah, I have experienced that for a lot of my life. I didn't realize that that wasn't normal, though. I haven't experienced Canadian internet for long enough. However, I can definitely say that I have had to solve a lot of captchas and can recall at least one incident where I could only have been banned because I was from Pakistan.
It happens often on Reddit, which is really bad with their shadowbanning and associating you with other accounts that you have nothing to do with, probably because crappy ISPs reuse IP addresses for multiple users.
Some ISPs also use a carrier-grade NAT so multiple users share an IP address.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 lived in Singapore and while I was there, I used MyRepublic's mobile plans. The plan I was using was $24(SGD) a month for 17G. Rarely had connectivity issues though for the most part, I stayed in the more populated areas so I may not have had the same connectivity issues as you. One of the nice things was that each telco would keep changing their plans to be better and better so it paid to pay attention and change…
Thanks Gary, haven't used My Republic personally, but I've tried the rest, and wasn't impressed. Will consider My Republic next time. I travel a lot around Singapore, hence my experience.
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
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We also have "unlimited" plans in Spain, however at +40€ typically, and under "fair use" use clauses.
The question is always what fair use is. Phone contracts with unlimited data set the fair use clause in Austria to 1.5TB a month and have no such limitation for data only sim cards (home use). On the other hand unlimited in Germany often means ISDN speeds after 50GB.
Fair use is loosely defined in most of Spanish ISP, and sometimes not enforced.
In reality it means "as long as you don't overload your nearest BTS very often and we get complains from other customers, you're good to go".
Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
We also have "unlimited" plans in Spain, however at +40€ typically, and under "fair use" use clauses.
The question is always what fair use is. Phone contracts with unlimited data set the fair use clause in Austria to 1.5TB a month and have no such limitation for data only sim cards (home use). On the other hand unlimited in Germany often means ISDN speeds after 50GB.
I live in Switzerland and we have quite a lot of unlimited plans without speed limit after a certain amount of data. Also the price in relation to income is not that high. If I compare it to Germany, where you can get no real unlimited plan and very often have a bad signal even in cities, and also in relationship to the income there, Germany seems to earn a place much lower on the list.
So this comparison seems a bit odd, and should be divided into prepaid plans with limited data packages and unlimited plans.