Yes, that's what you get for living in "developed countries".

Here in good old backwater France (you know, the land of frog eaters, smelly unsterilized cheese and fast trains...), my DSL landline costs me 30€/mo (used to be about 30$ too, currently 47.40, but still the same to me, right ? :-).

That includes uncapped, unfiltered, un-traffic-shaped bandwidth (20 Mbps downlink, 1 Mb uplink) with fixed IP; unlimited free calls (with a regular phone, not Skype) in France and 70 other countries, with Skype-like rates for the rest; a few hundred TV channels and radios through a set-top box, free, PPV or VOD; and VoIP service that lets me call from anywhere I can use Wifi and a SIP client as if I were at home.

Mobile data used to be a problem though, being either very expensive or requiring clever hacks. Just this month (March 6th) Orange blew a big hole in the local oligopoly with its 9€/mo (that's $14.22 fer y'all) data plan for "unlimited" http/https browsing... without a proxy. That means unlimited anything if you can set up your own OpenVPN endpoint.

The innovative part (for us here) is that it works not only as a monthly option to a voice plan, like all other data plans, but also with Orange's prepaid call cards. In that case the "option" is paid for using the card's credit, and lasts 31 days. You can let it lapse if you don't need it, the re-credit the card and subscribe again with a phone call when needed again. Very convenient, and no bad surprises on monthly bills...

This is on Orange's EDGE/3G/3G+ network, so speed depends on your mobile's abilities and location.

When I bought my first tablet I also believed it would mostly be used with Wifi. But given the relative scarcity here of (free) hotspots, and more reasonably priced data plans, I actually have used it (them) just as much with my mobile phone, if not more...