Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest

Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chewz on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:57AM (#19422180)

Labor cost is insignificant. More so the cost of building infrastructure - BTS towers.

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by abbe_k on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:18PM (#19422402)

And labor cost are significant when building the towers. The actual cost for the equipment is much smaller than the tower installation cost.

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chrismeller on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:10PM (#19422313)

And how is building infrastructure not impacted by labor costs?

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chewz on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:49PM (#19422724)

Lease, monitoring, insurance, real estate taxes, site maintenance.

From the report [1]:

Tower cost in India (40-60k$) due to low land rent cost. Tower in Latin America (120-180k$)

Tower in UK - 200-400k£ [2]

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chrismeller on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:22PM (#19423027)

If anything that is supporting my argument. Yes, all of those costs are less in India. Why would that possibly be?

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chewz on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:00PM (#19423397)

Because land lease and related cost are significantly lower in India. Not due to labor costs.

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