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."
That's Cheap (Score:5, Interesting)
A few years ago my mobile provider (Vodafone) charged NZ$0.10 per 10kB block of data. That is NZ 41.9 million per 40GB or £21.6 million.
Luckily they are much less unreasonable now.
If you used text messeges... (Score:5, Interesting)
If you were to transmit that same 40GB by text it would cost you $52,400,000.