Worldwide mobile data costs compared

[Saman]

Who you calling a idiot, you idiot?

...LOL!!! Way to go, give it to him mate! Absolutely hilarious!

 

[markings]

Precisely the kind that use 3G ! ....and they are more common that you may think. In fact, I happen to be one of them .
.. and still have a few meg to spare from my 1gig bundle at the end of the month.

I did not mean to put down users like you. If you go to the article and read the complete sentence quoted, you will see that it refers to 318 impressions per month and 4Mb data, which I would think also refers to a month. My question is really what kind of user only uses 4Mb a month? Clearly not you, as your 1Gb bundle divided by 30 days would give you approx. 30Mb per day.

 

[supersunbird]

I did not mean to put down users like you. If you go to the article and read the complete sentence quoted, you will see that it refers to 318 impressions per month and 4Mb data, which I would think also refers to a month. My question is really what kind of user only uses 4Mb a month? Clearly not you, as your 1Gb bundle divided by 30 days would give you approx. 30Mb per day.

I do, I often go on Opera Mini with my average Nokia. Check Facebook updates and might even google/wiki something i need to know on the fly. I'm sure it's around 4 to 5MB of usage a month.

 

[the_don46]

Good point, well put.

Precisely the kind that use 3G ! ....and they are more common that you may think. In fact, I happen to be one of them .
I check my email and browse every day. I also partake in these forums from my netbook as well as my WM phone, download my essential updates daily (antivirus, windows, weather & stocks) and even download a few apps as needed, and still have a few meg to spare from my 1gig bundle at the end of the month. Of course we don't all have kids who play online games or spouses who watch YouTube and live on Facebook, and we generally use the local video hire for our entertainment needs. But mostly we have 'normal' jobs during the day that require us to be productive, plus we have a real life outside of the virtual world .
:erm: ...why else do you think the mobile operators in SA still offer the 3G service ?! Clearly there are enough 'average' users around who make this offering a profitable one. For everyone else, well....there's DSL

Having said all that, 3G is still more expensive here than it should be. And those uncapped offerings would really gain the mobile companies serious market share.

 

[the_don46]

With a response and attitude like yours, the only thing I understand clearly about the article or what you just said, is that in fact, you are THE IDIOT

Most of you guys are a bunch of idiots. Can't you read?

The article is not about CONTRACTS or DATA BUNDLES. Price per meg, no contract & no bundle, GET IT?

 

[Saman]

I did not mean to put down users like you. If you go to the article and read the complete sentence quoted, you will see that it refers to 318 impressions per month and 4Mb data, which I would think also refers to a month. My question is really what kind of user only uses 4Mb a month? Clearly not you, as your 1Gb bundle divided by 30 days would give you approx. 30Mb per day.

No offence taken. When DSL eventually becomes affordable enough to become my primary medium for internet access, I'll likely be a 4mb/month 3G user too for the daily weather update and occasional peek at my email from my mobile phone while I'm on the road. I imagine that's a fairly common scenario for mobile-phone users

 

[n00berizer]

Skew story. UK and USA have flat data rates available, and you can use as much of it as you want. Makes the price per mb a moot point.

 

[chubster]

I can only come to a conclusion that the per MB data sent by the Europeans were calculated using text based transport After reading some of the posts that boast some mobile operators provides at a fixed fee an uncapped data service.