Exactly, our problem in Oz is worse, even lower population density, and whoever
regulates the provision of these technologies basically averages the cost to
consumers over the whole country - no benefit in living in a big city.
...Wayne
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> From: olympus <olympus-
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> Subject: Re: [OM] Call/data costs
>
> Population density - they're 8x less dense than us, so infrastructure is more
> expensive.
> And then there's competition, marketing, regulation, ...
>
> On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 15:32, Brian Gray via olympus <
> olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > HI Chris said: "Since Earthlink no longer has a viable dialup service
> > here, I'm looking into other "bottom feeder" options. Using my cell
> > phone tethered to a laptop, I'm using about 500M/week, which is pretty
> > cheap. I can knock down the Earthlink account to "premium email" for
> > $8.95/mo, which saves me $20/mo. Ending the landline phone will save
> > $75/mo. Cell phone prepaid data is $10/G, so I can easily afford
> > 1G/week and still save $$ overall. I'm going to test this option for
> > a week or two before making the change."
> >
> > Why is the telephone system so expensive in the States? In the UK, I
> > get unlimited broadband data and unlimited internal UK telephone 24/7
> calls for
> > under £35 per month. And the broadband download rate is over 50Mbs in
> a
> > village of 5,000 people.
> > Brian
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