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India Beats UK and US on Mobile Data Price (bbc.com)
A study into the amount people pay for mobile data has found that the UK has some of the most expensive prices in Europe. From a report: The research, from price comparison site Cable.co.uk, found that one gigabyte (GB) of data cost $0.26 in India but $6.66 in the UK. The US had one of the most expensive rates -- with an average cost of $12.37 for the same amount of data. The results were "disappointing" said Cable's telecoms analyst Dan Howdle. "Despite a healthy UK marketplace, our study has uncovered that EU nations such as Finland, Poland, Denmark, Italy, Austria and France pay a fraction of what we pay in the UK for similar data usage. It will be interesting to see how our position is affected post-Brexit," he said. The study compared mobile data pricing in 230 countries around the world. The UK ranked 136th in the list. The global average was $8.53 for 1GB.
We get absolutely pilliaged by the users of our public resource - the wireless spectrum - and it's unclear why, as a nation, tolerate it. :(
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This is an average of the cost per megabyte of all offerings.This doesn't indicate how much people actually pay for a gigabyte.
A country might have multiple providers offering ultra-cheap packages. These are going to offer rubbish value for money, but hardly anyone actually uses the, except a handful of people who use their phones for emergencies only.
Pretty much nobody in the UK is paying a fiver per gigabyte. It takes no time at all to find packages offering 4GB for £11 a month from Three.co.uk. But the people who use most data are the ones on the higher data plans,
Unless you can find the amount of data used, and the total amount paid, your statistics are worthless.
I'm still on the T-Mobile "Walmart" plan, $30 for 5GB. That's $6/month/GB on a major carrier without trying very hard.
T-Mobile has a family plan that is "unlimited" (deprioritized at 50GB) for $40/month per line. Even if we call that 50GB a cap, that's only $0.80 per GB. And that includes Netflix, phone, and texts. Not seeing the point here.
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(Denmark) I believe I pay around 150DKK ($22 USD?) for 20 gigabytes of data, unlimited talk,sms,mms. :)
That goes for international as well, but only 10GB of data and have to touch homebase after a month or something like that, I suppose it to avoid it being sold and use 100% people outside the country. It means that when I travel to the US, I can use the phone like when I am home. It has been very useful.
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