Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage

Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by hkt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:23AM (#25643377)

Amazing. I'm in a part of the UK using copper laid in the 1950s, my maximum speed with VDSL is about 30mbit. Upload struggles to beat 5mbit. For that I pay £30/month.

4G is a little better, I recently got a contract for £37/month and can get 35/10mbit down/up.

Incredible to think that I pay quadruple what you do for an inferior service.

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by RantyDave on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:33AM (#25643759)

It's happened in a number of places. Anywhere that never really invested in copper, or had crappy colonial copper left over, just skipped the whole xDSL era entirely and went mad for 4G, Fibre, or both.

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by Santosh83 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:28AM (#25644076)

These guys are roughly paying 1000 INR for average salaries (of the tech folk... others are much worse) of around 60,000 INR per month. Is it around the same ratio for you in terms of earnings versus cost for the connection? Otherwise it is misleading to convert everything to USD since earning average capacity is widely different from the West to other places.

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by hkt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:50AM (#25647415)

Actually that's fair, in terms of parity dollars mine is really much cheaper, I'd imagine.

Still, it confuses me in terms of absolute cost. Does this just mean I'm a profitable customer for my ISP? Or that they're less efficient? Or is it just a symptom of the higher wages of the ISPs' employees?

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by vijaybritto on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:41AM (#25645967)

Its not misleading. Its actually quite costly there.

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