Thread: Interesting article on data plans in Europe/North America
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2007-11-28 , 05:44
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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
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.
Please, if you're capped at 1GB a month, then where is the comparison with a carrier like Sprint, whose unlimited IS unlimited? (Verizon, the shady one, is somewhere around 5GB, rumor has it).

Your prices don't compare with the U.S at all. Here, data is targeted for more than just email, there's T.V, music, navigation and so forth, which leaves no room for your 1GB cap. Heck i chew through 1GB in a week on my Treo with my version of regular use (web, email, Orb, Sprint TV, internet radio, YouTube, tethering to N800 and so on). $25 for unlimited data and text...doesn't compare at all.