Hey people, lets compare internet costs around the world.
Here in India, it costs around ₹700 INR (~$11 USD) for a 20Mbps ethernet connection with a 100GB cap (3Mbps thereafter) for a month.
It costs around half of that for a 4G mobile connection (1GB/day for 28 days).
Let us know how is it at your place.
@ramlmn £28.50/month (~$36.50) for 70MB/s unlimited home broadband.
£12.99/month for 4G (coverage in UK is rubbish) with 1GB cap.
@ramlmn In London, £25-£40 for 38Mbps uncapped, about £12-£15 of that goes to "line rental" from almost all providers, which is something I still don't understand
@ramlmn Netherlands: 60 euro a month: 150/15 Mbit/s, wifi, telephone, digital television + radio.
@ramlmn Norway:
The slowest packages offered by one of the most popular ISPs (Get) gives you 35Mbps down and 10 up and costs 449 NOK (~52 USD) pr month.
Their fastest package is 500Mbps down and 50 up and costs 999 NOK/month (~116 USD).
No cap.
Can't be bothered to check the mobile data prices ATM ;)
@forteller @ramlmn Sounds costy compared to France…
@lanodan_tmp @ramlmn I'm guessing we have higher income compared to Frane too, though :)
@ramlmn Internet cost for frontier adsl service here is $30 for 7MB down and one up.
@ramlmn here in France it costs between 20€ (~ $21 USD) and 35€ (~ $38 USD) for a 20Mbp/s Ethernet down (using phone line) and 1Mbp/s Up connection without any data limit.
About 40€ ($43 USD) for a fiber connection with 1Gbit/s down and 200Mbp/s Up, without any data limit.
For 4g it's about 20€ for data going from 20Go (per month) up to 100Go (per month) depending on the operator.
@ramlmn I'm currently paying CAD $60 (+tax) for 60/10 cable internet, unlimited usage. (About $50 USD total.) This is one of the cheaper rates in my area.
On mobile, my plan gives me 200 minutes talk, unlimited sms, 1G data for $45, and +$10 for each addtional 1G up to max 3G total. I usually use 2G → $55 total (+tax), which is around $46 USD.
@ramlmn What's a daily income or hourly rate in India vs the monthly internet cost? If the average Internet is $80 in Canada, and someone makes $20 per hour, it's approx 4 working hours to pay for a month of internet.
@ramlmn 30€ for 1Gbps unlimited and 20€ for 100GB of 4G+ in France
@ramlmn In Switzerland, the cheapest cable line is about 30 CHF (~ 30 USD) for really slow Internet (2 Mbps down, 200kbit/s up). From there you can gradually move upwards, until you top out at fibre (in larger cities) with 1 Gibt/s up/down unlimited for ~65 CHF / month (~ 65 USD / month; only thanks to Fiber7, who have somewhat disrupted the market).
Mobile is around 50 CHF / month for "flat" plans, if you want just data you can get it a bit cheaper.
In rural Maryland, US (20 miles from Baltimore, less than 100 from Washington DC), I have no land-based internet options or cell phone signal. Satellite internet is my only available ISP.
I pay $150 USD for 20Mbps down/5Mbps up (I think), with a 20GB cap plus 50GB more I can only use between 2-8 AM, and 5-25Kbps down (it varies depending on system congestion) after that.
That's the highest-tier plan my ISP offers. @ramlmn
@loke @ramlmn I'm about 3 miles from the nearest library/grocery store/etc. As mentioned, I'm 20 miles from a major city and less than 100 from the nation's capital.
Nearly 10% of US households don't have access to decent internet (not "choose not to buy in" but "the infrastructure doesn't exist") thanks to the US being a capitalist hellhole where service providers are only required to provide service to roads where there are a certain number of households per mile.
@loke @ramlmn Verizon claims they're finally running FiOS here, but won't commit to when it will be available and won't give me a cost on laying the fiber. Comcast (the only cable-based provider here) will give me a figure: $27,500 USD to run cable, and that doesn't even cover the whole road, just the distance from the nearest drop to my house (there are 7 houses beyond me on the road).
@ramlmn the three ISPs i work with currently, in Rochester, New York (a city of about 120,000 people, roughly 120 km from the Canadian border):
at home: FTTH, 100 Mb/s down, 20 Mb/s up, $50/mo (Greenlight Networks)
at hackerspace: DOCSIS, 60 Mb/s down, 5 or 10 up (can't recall), $100/mo (Spectrum)
mobile: LTE, currently getting 24 Mb/s down, 5 Mb/s up, three lines of service, $100/mo (T-Mobile)
@ramlmn
France :
~30 EUR / month
No cap.
Ranges from very shitty ADSL to really good Fiber.
4G :
Best one would probably be Free Telecom™
~20 € / month : no cap (yes unlimited 4G, used to be 50G of 4G and then slower)
@ramlmn I pay about 70 SGD (50 USD) for 2 Gb/s unlimited, in Singapore.
@ramlmn I pay 70 SGD (50 USD) for my 2 Gb/s fibre connection in Singapore.
@ramlmn Washington DC. $80/month for 100Mbps with a 2TB cap.
@ramlmn In my little city in the western USA: $50/mo USD for municipal 1 Gbps fiber, unlimited. ~$40/mo for 20 Mbps DSL, unlimited. It was around $50/mo for the lowest tier of cable internet (I think around 20 Mbps?) last time I tried them, but that was a few years ago. They didn't have formal bandwidth limits, but my connection always seemed to be getting throttled. Costs vary pretty widely in the US so this is just in my town.
@ramlmn Germany 🇩🇪: unlimited broadband at home with 100 MBit: 25-45 Euro (27-49 $)
A mobile contract with 1gb data on 4g is between 7 and 30 Euro (8-33$) - mobile data is quite expensive compared to other European countries
@ramlmn
In Japan 🇯🇵, (countryside)
72 USD/month for 1Gbps unlimited home broadband.
(actual measurement value : 123 Mbps down )
major carrier: 60 USD/month for 4G with 7GB cap.
MVNO: 30 USD/month for 4G with 20GB cap.
@ramlmn Here in Canada, it costs CDN$99 (~USD$73) for 25mb up 10mb down with no data cap.
@ramlmn Here in Mauritius I share a 100Mbps connection with 1TB cap, which is MUR 4000 in total (~ $116). 20Mbps would be around $44 and 4G is approx $12 per month for 1.6GB.
@ramlmn In the States it REALLY depends upon where you live and who your providers are.
Most have choice between telco and cable company, $40-80 month, speed can vary.
I pay $35 USD/month for 35 down / 15 up, no cap, delivered over a microwave dish, but that is unusual.
@ramlmn
In Portugal
DSL at 20Mbps costs on its own around 20-30 EUR (~ 22-33 USD), no cap
A basic fibre connection (allegedly 100Mbps) goes for 30-40 EUR (~ 33 - 44 USD), no cap
4G with a 50Gb monthly cap costs between 15 an 25 EUR (~ 16 to 26 USD)