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Re:iPad Pro by sqldba on Monday June 05, 2017 @11:10PM (#14494436)
What are your LTE costs per GB? It hasn't caught on in Australia; you pay about $30AUD a month for about 5GB of total data traffic. If you have 5 devices you usually can't share it either so you either have to swap a lot of SIMs or that's $150 a month one for each.
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Re:iPad Pro by cstejerean on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:42AM (#14494789)
In the US pretty much all carriers have moved to shared data plans where you can get a pool of data to share between all devices on the plan, which can include other family members.
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Re:iPad Pro by jeena on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:29AM (#14495197)
I'm in Sweden and here you can pay $63/month to get a flatrate for calling/smm/mms/surfing + 100GB in EU/ESS, Malaysia and Thailand, and you can get a extra SIM card if you need one for another device.

But for me my company pays that anyway so I can get a new phone every year with basically free surfing in the whole EU, which is really nice.

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Re:iPad Pro by kartickv on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:49AM (#14495494)
It's not just the cost, but also the hassle of getting SIM cards, submitting documentation to get each (in India), paying multiple bills, tracking which plan you're on for each SIM card, and so on.
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