40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House 188
Barence writes "PC Pro has an infographic that reveals the extortionate cost of roaming data. They compared the cost of data typically bundled with a fixed-line broadband package (40GB) costing £15, with the cost of buying that data on various mobile tariffs. Buying 40GB of data on a domestic mobile internet tariff from Orange would cost the same as an iMac; buying the same quantity of data on O2's non-Europe roaming tariff would cost £240,000 — or the same as a three-bedroom house."
It's the economy!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That is absolutely nothing compared to SMS rate (Score:4, Funny)
That's nothing. If I transmit data across the country in my usual way, by writing it out in hex on the back of a postcard and mailing it (one byte, two hex chars per postcard), it costs me almost $300 / kB just in postage alone!