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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by YZF on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:32AM (#24250044)
I'm with Public Mobile (they're owned by Telus now) and I'm paying $8/month right now. I don't use much data so I just recharge that when I need to. If you want to use my discount code I'll be paying even less ;) though tbh I think their cheapest plan is now $15 before any discounts. You can buy 1GB of data for $15 (which if you don't use carries forward) i.e. the official undiscounted price would be $30/month.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by donmcronald on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:01AM (#24251286)
You’re throttled to 3Mb/s, right? I’m already using PM. 1GB @ 3Mb/s is good enough for about 10 hours of RDP, so I’m satisfied with it. I was mainly pointing out that to get to $12 / GB you have to be jumping through some serious hoops or adding it to a high tier plan, so the number in the OP is almost fictitious IMO.

The real metric to be concerned with should be the cost of the first GB.

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