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by reissbaker 600 days ago
We are discussing the price of smartphones, not the price of data plans.

The infographic also seems pretty wrong, FWIW, especially considering that many US plans are uncapped and thus price/GB depends on usage. (There are sometimes, but not always, throttles past large amounts of usage eg 50GB/month, but since most of these plans cost less than $50/month, it seems extremely unlikely that most people are paying $6/GB as the website is claiming.) Verizon's "Visible" brand, for example, offers plans for $25/month with "unlimited" (soft cap at 60GB) data, for an effective $0.41/GB assuming you use up to the throttle limit. Even non-unlimited plans can be quite cheap; T-Mobile, for example, offers prepaid data plans for as little as $1/GB.

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The site may be wrong and thanks for the inputs. However you can compare it to a French plan of 14€ per month for 140GB (and then throttled) by example and there are maybe cheaper prices per gb.