Thread: Google to buy 700MHz spectrum in the US
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2007-07-25 , 10:33
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Originally Posted by dlhuss View Post
i live in germany and sell to the internet service providers and mobile operators. and so far, the mobile operators (T-Mobile and O2, for example) tell me data services with mobile operators are nowhere near meeting expectations. why? too expensive!!! they admit it. europe, i would argue is years behind the US in their price model. why does t-mobile earn so much more in the US than germany? don't know, but prices in the US are much lower.

i don't know finland, but UK, france, germany, netherlands are crazy. why do i pay 1 euro ($1.38) per minute to call france?

give me google!
Wie gehts dlhuss,

The reason for the high prices is simple. They paid too much for the licenses. Germany, and the UK paid the most for the 3G license, with France and The Netherlands to follow. Not to mention the rest of Europe. How are the investors going to get their money back unless the data rates are priced high. Still with the higher price, the services are (there is no valid argument here) better and more advanced than anything the US has to offer. Second, I am not 1005 sure but for Google to work in Germany they might have to go around the Datenscheutz laws. Google will have personal info on people and I do not think this is allowed in Germany. In Finland the data services are relatively inexpensive. I have an unlimited plan and pay a bit over 15 Euros, not to mention the few Euros I pay for the monthy subscription. Still to this point, I can not see anything that Google can provide that I can not get today, plus a phone that works everywhere in the world, even the US.
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