[herbst]

I pay $1.20 a day for 20MB LTE and "unlimited" slow connection. 20MB is not even a writing error, usually the first thing that happens when i read news in the morning is a SMS that i went over my high speed limit.

This is in Switzerland, and i had similar bad offers in the Netherlands and Germany.

My point is, while most countries figured this out meanwhile. Some "wealthy" ones didnt.

[visarga]

That's because having too powerful telecoms is bad for innovation and competition. The final poisoned fruit of successful capitalism/corporatism.

[bjoli]

I don't know about Switzerland, but in Germany the overnment sold the rights to the 3g frequency spectrum for insane prises (billions of euros). The companies are still trying to squeeze out a maximum ROI while they still (??) have exclusive rights to the spectrum.