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A comment on Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps network this year.

Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by kyle_t on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:04PM (#7093362)
After travelling/living in Southeast Asia for 8 months and paying between $5-10/month for LTE speeds that are consistently more reliable and quicker than in the USA it makes me shudder when I get my bill every month for $100+ for two lines. Granted there are differences i.e labor costs and total land area coverage, but on the whole the price difference doesn't make up for it.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by interstitial on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:20PM (#7093409)
It's almost like the management of America's mobile carriers and pharmaceutical companies went to the same business schools, were members of the same fraternities and bribe the same senators or something.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by grecy on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:11PM (#7093376)
A guy visiting from nowhere in Australia was telling us how he gets twice the minutes, unlimited texts and twice the data on LTE+ for about 1/2 of what it costs in the USA.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by avn2109 on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:54PM (#7093536)
And Australia is a country with an overwhelmingly higher cost of living than almost everywhere in the US.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by grecy on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:03AM (#7094179)
...and an overwhelmingly higher standard of living to go with that.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by rxdazn on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:54PM (#7093534)
you don't even get edge when you're in the middle of nowhere in Australia, much less LTE.

e.g: http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/coverage-networks/ou...

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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by 10feet on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:05AM (#7093737)
You don't get anything in the middle of Australia, because nobody lives or goes there. It is a desert.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:22AM (#7093639)
The middle of Australia is, technically speaking, "a hellish wasteland devoid of life". Meanwhile here in the Bay Area I'm lucky to get gsm on my phone when at home.
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Re:Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps netwo... by grecy on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:05AM (#7094186)
That big dot with all the coverage right in the middle called "Alice Springs". That's where he lives.
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