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Is This the Lowest Data Plan in the World?

Filed in archive Mobile Services , PDAs , Smartphones , Vodafone , Wireless Living by Rico Mossesgeld on July 14, 2007

Is This the Lowest Data Plan in the World?
Remember when the European Union slashed mobile data rates? Check out Steve litchfieldlinks's personal experience:
But, come a few spare minutes, I thought I'd experiment and put the new tariff (£1 cap per day, £2/MB, up to 15MB) to the test. Hammering the Web and some downloads, I slammed 10MB through my Nokia N95 in about 20 minutes. Checking my credit afterwards, it had indeed gone down by only £1. I'm impressed.

Let's take stock for a moment. That's £1 for 15MB, effectively, on a single day, or around 7 pence per Megabyte, compared to £7.30/MB, a hundredfold decrease in charges. In fact, impressed is something of an understatement.

Understandably, Steve is impressed. But I can imagine his jaw dropping even more if he finds out how much people in the Philippines pay for true unlimited for fast mobile connectivity.

Local Telco Globe for instance charges Php 2,000/month for its Visibility HSDPA service. That's only around £21 for unlimited access for the entire month! And at speeds over 1Mbps to boot. No per unit costs, no limitations.

Ah, the beauty of living in a so-called third world country. While third-world infrastructure can't compare to the first-world, the really low third-world costs are almost impossible for more developed countries to beat.






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