[UnoriginalGuy]

Americans pay a LOT for their cellular service. I mean $100/month is just absolutely insane.

Currently I pay about $17/month but if I wanted unlimited everything I could get it for $32/month.

We don't pay to receive calls or texts however so there is little need to have "unlimited" either. Even the thought that I am paying for advertisers to send me junk text messages or calls would drive me insane, if I was in the US.

The US and Canada really have it rough with mobile and internet services...

[drstewart]

Cherry-picking one number and comparing it to another country by converting the dollar amount is a ridiculous and meaningless comparison.

Looking on here:

http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/pay_monthly/24_months/Medi...

It looks like the cost is $70/month for unlimited text/voice and 1 GB of data. That doesn't seem much cheaper at all to me.

[beagle3]

I'm living in NYC and paying ~$80/month for limited everything (900 minutes/1000 texts/2GB/other perks but other discounts).

I visited Berlin in June. I prepaid 15 Eur for unlimited one week everything on Vodafone. I could have gotten prepaid everything for 30 Eur/month, but I was only there for a week.

And the 3G speeds I received were actually higher than the ones I usually get in NYC.

[Adirael]

I was shocked at the dropped call rates. I can't recall the last time I got a dropped call, a 4.6% has to bee annoying.