Thread: Interesting article on data plans in Europe/North America
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-11-27 , 18:25
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Originally Posted by merovingian View Post
Hahaha, on my local carrier here in the States, Sprint, unlimited EVDO data (yeahhh baby!!) is $15/month and unlimited text is $10/month.
I looked at some plans from O2/Vodafone/Orange/Tmobile U.K/3 and so forth, and i asked myself tearfully if i needed *vaseline* !!

Why so high tariffs?
Virtually all voice plans in the UK include generous free outgoing text message allowances (and definately no charge to receive!) and both 3 and T-Mobile UK offer unlimited* 3G 3.6Mbit/s data plans for £5/$10 and £7.50/$15 month respectively.

Those prices seem to compare well with the US, actually better than the US. It's the data plans offered by O2/Vodaphone/Orange that are extremely poor, but then these networks view data provision as a cash cow and seemingly have no immediate plans to compete with 3/T-Mobile.

* Unlimited in this sense is a capped allowance of 1GB/month which is usually more than enough for a small hand held device such as a mobile phone, and should still be more than enough for a tethered phone/tablet combination.
Last edited by Milhouse; 2007-11-27 at 18:30.