| ali92 |
I have noticed long before the iPhone bill blogs appeared that data roaming (as well as some pay-per-use options like what are found in Canada) is extortionately expensive but advertised with extremely small units, like 0.01--0.05 $/KB for example. That's about 10 to 50 dollars per MEGABYTE.
My question is: does it really cost anywhere near this much for your data to work on a foreign network? If anything, an American visiting Europe should pay cheaply considering how little native data plans costs in many countries, as well as the new Eurotarriffs that are being introduced to curtail the costs of European roaming in each other's nations. If it does not cost that much to supply the data, especially if it costs 10 to 100 times less, I wonder when things are going to change for end-users to reflect modern devices that are basically computers & use 3G connections that can be as fast as home broadband. 1000 to 10000 % is an insane mark-up for what it is that is being used.
All that being said, if it really does cost this much to use mobile Internet when roaming, where can the blame come from? Web pages being too bloated? Excessive use? Applications programmed to liberally use bandwidth (Google Maps for Mobile uses up between 4 & 16 KB per tile on a typical map screen)?
Anyone on here travel & get dinged with these high fees?
PS: I posted on the other forum I frequently visit, Howard Forums, that is dedicated to mobile phone technology but got no decent answers. |
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