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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by mruts on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:04PM (#19422255)
See my above comment on why this is a fallacy. PPP isn’t magic, it only affects goods that are difficult to arbitrage.

This is why oil is the same price pretty much everywhere in the oil. Because if oil was cheaper (including taxes and transport) in one place, someone would buy it and sell it somewhere else.

When everyone is doing this, it equalizes the prices. This is because arbitrage drives up the price of cheaper oil and drives down the price of the expensive

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chrismeller on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:10PM (#19422306)
Difficult to arbitrage? You just proved the opposite of your own argument.

Oil is the same price for many reasons (least of them being OPEC), but largely because of your point - there is a global market.

How exactly is the US or UK supposed to export cheap data from India?

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by mruts on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:56PM (#19426201)
The point is that the cell towers are going to be the same price regardless of location. So PPP isn’t a good justification for why data is cheaper in India. That is all I’m saying.
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