Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World?

An anonymous reader writes "Working for the Olympics as an IT contractor, I recently moved to the Media Village (where all of the reporters live) and was surprised the there was no free internet. BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games) is charging a ridiculous amount of money for ADSL service: for 512/512 it costs 7712.5 RMB (1131.20 USD); for 1M/512 it costs 9156.25 (1342.95 USD); for 2M/512 it costs a whopping 11,700 RMB (1716.05 USD). That is for only one month! For extra features like a fixed IP? That costs an additional 450 RMB (66 USD). I just can't believe that not only do I have to deal with the Great Firewall of China, but also pay through the nose to use it!"

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[EdIII]

TELL me about it!

These little whipper snappers got no idea how good they got it! 500 gig hard drives full of porn. 20K+ pictures and whole WEEKS worth of video footage.

Back in my day you had to tie up a phone line for 20 minutes to get a SINGLE picture to come out on the monitor. You were lucky if you could keep it together long enough to see the whole picture!

If you wanted anything really interesting it was a 200$ phone bill to Germany. Awwww, those were the good ol' days :)

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[rjk94]

Nice plug for Batman film. It really is amazing and yeah, Heath Ledger deserves an Oscar. Thanks for translating, I really could not be bothered to myself. Has anyone found any internet that's more expensive?