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Yes. Is that relevant? Their data is often cheaper than ours!


Which 'ours' ?

Cheaper compared to the income & cost of life ? With the median world income being $30/month, I doubt so !


> With the median world income being $30/month, I doubt so !

First of all, this isn't even true - it's around $240/month.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo...

Second, people living in those countries aren't buying US data plans at US prices are they? You don't live in the Congo but shop for your data plan at a California strip-mall, do you?


Oh, right, I confused median with '1 dollar per day' extreme poverty line :

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Which should be around 5% these days.

> Second, people living in those countries aren't buying US data plans at US prices are they? You don't live in the Congo but shop for your data plan at a California strip-mall, do you?

Ok, so what are these prices ?

https://www.cellularabroad.com/packages-congo.html#tabs-2

That's $100/Go for 3G. (Which is still 10 times cheaper than my first data plan !) But I suspect that this website is directed to rich westerners, anyone from third world countries here that might shine a light on this issue ?


I pay 19.99 € for 10gb and unlimited G3 after (Germany). It varies wildly between countries.

I know some eastern nations that have 50gb G4 for 10-15€, which is about as much as you'd pay for 1 meal in a pretty cheap restaurant.


You consider Germany and eastern (Europe?) to be third world nations ??




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