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by dep_b 3744 days ago
France is pretty unique and shows that in most countries telco's act as a cartel to keep prices inflated artificially.
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Those damn socialists, with their paid vacations, short working days, good infrastructure, cheap services, and free school and healthcare. Not to mention all the wine, cheese, secularism and protesting. Heathens...
It's hardly unique. Here in Finland, the prices are comparable, though data caps are rare. 20€/mo gets you LTE with some bundled calls and SMS. Rest of the Nordics should be fairly similar. Currently I pay 18€/mo for my 50Mbps uncapped LTE, I use it as my home connection.
For Free, the maximum debit is 150Mbit/s, and they throttle to 128Kbit/s after the 5OGB...
It wasn't much different before Free mobile kick in the hive.