US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive

Albanach writes "An OECD report published today has shown moderate cell phone users in the United States are paying some of the highest rates in the world . Average US plans cost $52.99 per month compared to an average of $10.95 in Finland. The full report is available only to subscribers, however Excel sheets of the raw data are available to download." (You'll find those Excel sheets — which open just fine in OpenOffice — on the summary page linked above.)

Yeah! We're number one!

[line-bundle]

So we aim to be number one in everything:

healthcare costs
shortest vacations
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Re:Missing Data, Towers Probably Influence Cost

[Anonymous Coward]

It must be the extraordinary customer service that is driving the costs up!

Re:Stupid prices

[0100010001010011]

That sounds pretty socialist there. I bet the Government even helped setup some towers.

Here in the good ole USA. We have Competition. None of that GSM only crap. We have true competition between carriers with CDMA, GSM, iDEN, etc. That way for any given area of good reception, there's 3x the number of towers. TRUE competition.

Re:Stupid prices

[Minwee]

Western Europe | 514 people/mi^2
United States | 86.5 people/mi^2

Basicly it takes 5 times the area to hold the same numebr of people.

That's amazing. I knew that people in the USA were bigger than usual, but I had no idea they were that big.

Re:Some other info about Finland

[commodoresloat]

Perhaps you think Finland must be tiny, in fact it's land area is 305470 sq km, that's bigger than Arizona. There are only five US states larger than Finland.

...and Texas is two of them.

Re:Stupid prices

[tholomyes]

Haven't you heard of Paul Bunyan [wikipedia.org], who was 25 feet tall? Or George Washington [google.com], twelve stories high, made of radiation? It's something in the water over here.

Re:Stupid prices

[tilandal]

I can't drive from UVA to Washington DC on a 4 lane state highway without loosing signal. We don't all drive in circles around LA.

Re:Stupid prices

[daremonai]

We don't all drive in circles around LA.

I've been there. Could have fooled me.

Pissing match

[mcgrew]

Perhaps you think Finland must be tiny, in fact it's land area is 305470 sq km, that's bigger than Arizona. There are only five US states larger than Finland. ...and Texas is two of them.

A Texan, an Arizonan, and an Alaskan were sitting around the campfire talking about how tough their respective citizens were. The The Arizonan says "boy, the average guy in my state sits in the 120 degree sun on a roof putting shingles on."

The Texan says "In Texas we're bull riding at age ten!"

The Alaskan didn't say anything, he just stood there stirring the fire with his dick.