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Re:Verizon’s great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slowe... by viraptor on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:17PM (#22006499)
> it was literally _FREE_ for carriers to implement, and per message data rates were like 6000 times that of a normal 2G packet

Similar story to mobile data roaming. It's crazy expensive... until the EU says that's a joke and they must stop. Now you get free data roaming across EU without higher plan prices and somehow operators can still compete on those prices.

Re:Verizon’s great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slowe... by lowdose on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:35PM (#22006641)
Because of the ridiculous handling of spectrum auctions. In Finland all auction profits are invested in a single shared network from which every telecom operator provides services from.

The rest of Europe has made the decision to leave the network up to the Telcos while using the funds of the auction as a tax income stream for government. This means a significant increased operating costs for every operator for which the end consumer pays the price. Both in higher subscription costs and less competition.