This thread, as expected is Scandi and French domination. Portugal is also not too bad. Italy is up and coming in the next 12mths.
Americans getting done over by cable monopolies and shitty cable networks. The US prices are orders of magnitude worse when you add in all taxes and fees. Remember European prices include all taxes and sundry fees.
Spaniards being roped into fusion bundles, which make cellphone family plans look trivial when it comes to lock-in. Nice little cartel forming there.
U.K. people getting done in for being current subscribers, only good deals available for new movers. Still shit in general.
Edit: missed Asia, generally obscenely fantastic consumer propositions.
Should have added that in Portugal as a general rule prices go way up after the 2 year (or however long it is on your contract) mandatory period, like my 27€ 200/200mbps service will shoot to around 60 something € in 1 year, ofc you can then renegotiate, but then you are stuck with that operator for X more years.
Also this price I got for the 200/200 was with haggling, or more precisely I went to the provider store and told them I wanted the same price they gave clients that wanted to renegotiate.
When I left my previous operator (MEO) I had to call them to cancel, and they started throwing me offers left and right some of them were worse in every way than what I already had XD, but in the end after spending half an hour on the phone telling them I wasn't interested they brought it down to like 21€ for 200 mbps, they even allowed me to pass that offer down to a family member of friend if I wanted to, so yeah at least in my country it pays a whole lot to haggle the prices with operators.
It also pays to wait for promotions which they do a few every year, for example last year vodafone and meo were doing 1gbps download with 100mbps upload for 38€ a month (with tv, and phone line).
Not trying to go off topic, but I am curious as to why some people need 100/100 and such. It doesn't take a lot to stream hd movies, play mp games, general browsing, etc. Also, doesn't your speeds vary from server to server?
Comes with the package and I use internet for work, upload in particularly is very useful to me, download is more of a bonus, but I do get to use my 200mbps (which I get a bit more than that) on almost all services really, which is always nice, why download games at 4 or 5 megabytes per second when you can download them at 26 megabytes per second.
Damn is all the internet in Europe public utility? I feel like they can't be making any money.
Nop, its the usual capitalism thing the more competition you see the better prices you get, also at least in my country the internet companies are making money hand over fist.
Are you guys posting temporary promo rates or the regular rate?
I'm paying $60 a month for 30/10 service on Comcast. But I'm not on any special promo plan anymore.
Been on Comcast for internet forever it seems.
Promotion for my fiber, usual price outside of promotion and the 2 year contractual obligation would be 60 something €, but they make 1 or 2 promotions every year, at which point does it really matter if its promotion price or not when you can easily get those prices (also just pit competing providers against one another if you are outside a promo).
Previously 8mbps unlimited for $40. I never used more than 60 to 70 GB so decided to get a downgrade and save some money.