Does Europe have the cheapest and fastest internet connections?

thereds

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I know that some European countries and cafés have per minute charges for access to the internet. The UK did have that at one point. I don't know about now. And also, the tel. call to the ISP wasn't free, which meant a dual charge.
 

billandopus

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Europe?!

Try Canada.

To get High Speed Cable uncapped 4mbit connection it's typically 40 bucks with free install and first month free. Converted into US dollars it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $26 dollars US. Per month that is.
 

Elledan

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Cable costs here (Netherlands) about 30 bucks a month. Dial-up costs $0.01(3) USD a minute ;)
 

hominid skull

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The UK has only 30,000 ADSL subscribers, take a look here for the story.

I've been trying to get ADSL for a couple of months but it's not planing on upgrading the local exchange for a year or more!!:(

 

cyclistca

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It will never be cheaper because in most European countries you have to pay for local calls. So even if it cost zero you still have to pay for all the time that your on the phone. Well that's the way it's ib England anyway.

I pretty happy with my 40.00 a month DSL :D
 

Czar

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Iceland does, or will in the next few months.. 100mbps connection for about $50 a month
 

cwand

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Japan has the fastest and cheapest connections. Why are they so far ahead of us technologically?
 

Zoe

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It depends on what part of Europe you have in mind. In Germany and France (I think) phone calls are charged by the second, which is very prohibitive to deeper internet access penetration. Scandinavia is somewhat the opposite, however.
 

Gunbuster

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Korea is wired with a ton of fibreoptics, highest net usage after USA, and Japan
 

cyclistca

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Gunbuster what's your source for this? I read somewhere that Canada was right up there when it comes to Internet usage. I also believe that whe're one of the top counties when it comes to hight speed access.
 

FrogDog

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In my area of Canada (Halifax, NS) there's three services for high speed (2 cable and 1 DSL) and they're all around $40 Canadian which is about $25 US. The DSL is pretty damn good too, in that the upload isn't capped very low.
 

kami

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Yeah, everyone in Canada is an internet junkie ;) And our high speed prices are the same as the US (typically $40/month) but once you convert to US funds it's only like $26/month (as already stated).

czar, that's total bullsh!t. That means ISP's would have to have like dedicated 300+ GigaBit pipes...it just ain't gonna happen. Maybe 100Mbps theoretical for the technology but you will NEVER get near that.