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by ojagodzinski 619 days ago
But why?

For 7EUR/month I have 30GB of data transfer + unlimited SMS and calls in my my country + ~8GB of data in whole EU, every month. There is no cheaper option. Who needs public Wi-Fi?

EU should increase the competitiveness of communication operators and not finance such stupid ideas. Also map in that app is online only. So you need internet access to get internet access...

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Perhaps you are assuming that your conditions, plans, and access are exactly the same across all ~500 million people in the EU.
Because of shit like https://www.telekom.de/shop/tarife/smartphone-tarife?tariffI...

Data prices vary wildly by country. And no, you cannot use a foreign carrier to get cheap data and roam all year, they'll find you and charge out-of-package pricing for every gigabyte you've used (which isn't the standard rate).

True but if you go to Telekom you're basically _asking_ to pay a lot. A 30 second search cuts that price already by 66%: https://www.alditalk.de/kombi-pakete https://www.nettokom.de/tarif/nettokom-smart-l/

If you can settle for 50Mbps (not really 5G, but already Aldi and Netto had a 100Mbps limit which is... basically the ITU definition of 4G), here's 50GB/month for 13 EUR: https://www.lebara.de/de/vertrag/hello-flex/hello-25-flex.ht...