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by sireat 5854 days ago
In Easter Europe you get the following from the official(read most expensive) iPhone carrier: $5 for 200mb, $9 for 2gigs and $18 for 10GB, $40 for unlimited.

These plans may be slightly cheaper than US plans, but that is nothing special. What is nice, that if you DO go over your limit, you can continue using the net downloading/uploading albeit at a ridiculously slow rate 16kb/8kb. If you want to go back to your usual speed you send a SMS and upgrade for $1 per GB or go to the next plan.

What is better in this approach is that the customer is never charged over what they agreed to pay in advance.

Sure beats paying $200 for a local phone bill in early 90s in USA for connecting to local ISP...