40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House

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."

Comments

You need to move to texas

[Hadlock]

You can get a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre in a respectable neighborhood for $130,000 (that's £90,000 in metric dollars for you british types). Sure, we won't have enough water for our population when the apocalypse comes, but in the mean time 3 bedrooms here is considered on the small side.

Re:You need to move to texas

[ShakaUVM]

>>Who would want to move to America from England to a southern state full of bible bashing racist retards....

I think you're getting your metaphors confused.

Atheists bash Bibles
Christians (well, some Christians) thump them.

And if you think people in the south are still racist, in general, you're the retard.

Re:You need to move to texas

[AK Marc]

Everybody, in general, is racist. Those in the south moreso. I was born in and spent my first 30 years in the south, and southerners are, in general, more racist than than the average Americans.

Proposed caps

[Joce640k]

Luckily the EU is investigating this and will impose rate caps on everybody.

Under the new scheme those same 40Gb of data will only cost as much as a Ford Mondeo.

The new regulation works though...

[jpapon]

My provider (Simyo) just created new EU roaming plans because of the legislation. I can now get 50 min for 4.99EU and 50MB for 4.99EU, useable in any EU country. While still not particularly cheap, that's really not bad at all. 150MB is more then enough to check maps and email over the course of my upcoming three week vacation, so I won't even hesitate.

Not to mention, they have a server side roaming data cap which is opt-out (thats right, by default it is ON) set to 59euros.

After my experiences with AT&T in the US, I can't even begin to express how pleased I am with this change. Two years ago I took a summer trip to Europe from the US and brought my iPhone... They wanted something ridiculous like $200 for 50MB. Over the course of two weeks I made about 100 minutes of phone calls and used 10MB of data, and came home to a $900 bill.

I'm so glad I jailbroke the phone, moved to Germany, and now get to benefit from reasonable consumer protection legislation...