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40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House

Posted by timothy on from the it's-where-and-when-that-costs dept.

Barence writes "PC Pro has an infographic that reveals the extortionate cost of roaming data. They compared the cost of data typically bundled with a fixed-line broadband package (40GB) costing £15, with the cost of buying that data on various mobile tariffs. Buying 40GB of data on a domestic mobile internet tariff from Orange would cost the same as an iMac; buying the same quantity of data on O2's non-Europe roaming tariff would cost £240,000 — or the same as a three-bedroom house."

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  1. It's the economy!!!! by Dutchmaan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember the days when a three bedroom house would only cost you 640kb... ahhh those were the days!

  2. Re:That is absolutely nothing compared to SMS rate by blueg3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's nothing. If I transmit data across the country in my usual way, by writing it out in hex on the back of a postcard and mailing it (one byte, two hex chars per postcard), it costs me almost $300 / kB just in postage alone!