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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by konjin on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:20PM (#24248437)
>Important point. I was talking to my brother in India. Last month internet service was down in their building for 4 days. Unlike folks who go apoplectic over this, he understands that 3rd world prices do not come with first world service quality in practice.

4 days is pretty good turn around time for most US cities that aren't NY or SF.

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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by geodel on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:09PM (#24248683)
It was just his building or may be apartment complex. I imagine city wide outages are more severe and likely due to some event like storm etc.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by puranjay on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:47PM (#24248879)
At least in India, the situation is far better now in terms of reliability. My internet goes down maybe once in 5-6 months, and when it does, it's back within 24 hours. Mobile internet is cheap and fast enough (I pay around $7 for 84 GB) that I can use it as backup.

My work is entirely online. I haven't worried about not having internet for a while.

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