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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by paublyrne on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:42AM (#24250573)
I knew the difference between a gigabit and a gigabyte but didn't know there were official symbol units for them. According to Wikipedia a gigabit is indeed Gb and a gigabyte is GB.

Having the only difference be case was always bound to cause confusion. :/

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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by iforgotpassword on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:37AM (#24250766)
Yes, I hate that, not only since sometimes people accidentally get it wrong like just now, but what if it's in all lowercase? What is 32gb? Oh it's multiple of 8 so it might be bits.... Imagine how great this world would be if we just settled on gbit for bits and any variation of GB for bytes.
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Re:The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020) by lokedhs on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:29AM (#24252548)
32 gb is a bit weird. But when people write mb, it should be read as "millibit", which is terribly small.
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