Not bad. Where in India are you getting those speeds? While I was there, there was limited 3G connectivity and none of the carriers worked everywhere. I used Vodafone in Mumbai and the 3G plan was ridiculously expensive and I stayed on 2G (which was still expensive). Then I went to a few other cities where Vodafone had no 3G rights and roaming made it very expensive. I bet most European cities have free WIFI in the area that India has working 3G.
major metros - downtown new delhi, bombay, etc. easily $1000+ / ft^2
also $0.25 vs $0.0018932 for an SMS. that's a couple orders of magnitude, isn't it?
Here's a listing in Bombay -- not quite $10,000/ft^2
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_38/b3951154.htm
Actually works out to about $210/ft^2 for one plot and about $460/ft^2 for the second.
Can you show me where you get $10,000/ft^2?
Brian
you can get FIOS at 100mbps. time warner cable will do 50 or so. but most people don't want to pay for it. i know don't since i'll never use it
netflix will work on 3-5. if my theory that apple will ship a TV with integrated clearwire and a dedicated itunes connection comes true i'll dump my 10mbps internet and get the cheapo cheapo one
and i think the speeds are a scam. a lot of the data is already locally on the ISP's network and it's not like the ISP is going to give you 50mbps to the whole internet, just on their internal network or on the local segment.
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Ahh, my bad... I read that as 10000 not 1000...
I can believe 1000, higher than I would have thought but believable. $1000 would be about 20% of NYC. So, if a typical smart phone plan with data in the USA costs, say, $92.50/month with about $12.50 of that the subsidy for the phone the actual monthly rate would be $80/month. If, as I understand it, the typical smart phone user in Indian buys there phone outright and then pays 25% of the USA rate that would be about $20/month.
Once again, it's likely that cell rates in the developing world will be less because all the costs are less -- all the costs except the hardware.
Brian
sgrinavi
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Why does everyone try to justify price based on costs in the US? For the most part price is what people will pay - nothing more, nothing less. If you don't like the price then don't buy the service. Do you really need it? I sure don't, but I like it enough to pay $250 / month for my 5 phone family plan..
Price may be what people are willing to pay when there is little or no competition but when there is competition the price tends to go down to 5% margins give or take. I don't think the USA carriers are rolling in huge percentage profits. The industry is a tough one due mostly to the extremely fast pace of change and the need for constant capital investment. I do think it is a good thing ATT wasn't permitted to reduce the competition by eating TMobile.
Sprints prices are a tad less than Verizon and ATT and they're just holding on by there finger tips!
Brian
My question is why is the US STILL lagging behind in service features. I was in India back in 2005/2006 and they had automated and convenience features on their network that we STILL dont have. Its incredible how much the US has lagged from the start and how much they continue to lag in this area of technology.
One example. Remember, this is in 2005. I attempted to make a phone call from my Airtel mobile to someone else's non-Airtel mobile. It went straight to voice mail. 2 hours later, when that person turned their phone on, I immediately rcvd a free SMS that notified me that he is now available. My mind was blown.
And before the privacy freaks come out, it is a user customizable feature. So he could turn it off and not let people know when he is back on the network.
One example. Remember, this is in 2005. I attempted to make a phone call from my Airtel mobile to someone else's non-Airtel mobile. It went straight to voice mail. 2 hours later, when that person turned their phone on, I immediately rcvd a free SMS that notified me that he is now available. My mind was blown.
And before the privacy freaks come out, it is a user customizable feature. So he could turn it off and not let people know when he is back on the network.
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Pretty consistent with Canadian data rates. We get charged $30 for 6GB of data and there are some plans that include that much. I remember when the iPhone first came out and plans were so terrible for smartphones. $120/mo for an iPhone with 6GB of data and call display and VVM. Now we're down to like $77 for the same things (minus VVM).
on the country's largest carrier (airtel, which is also the 5th largest carrier in the world, and 3rd larges carrier in the world ranked by home country subscribers)
250mb: 4 dollars
2gb: 14 dollars
5gb: 23 dollars
also you can add/remove these services at any time, just be sending an SMS to the airtel service number.
the automated service features of Indian carries are light years ahead of US ones. it makes me sad
That's pretty expensive. I pay $6 for 3GB/month (just upgraded from the free 1GB/month I get with the subscription).
we have voice mail, sms, email, and social media. only the old people in the USA still use the voice features of the cell networks
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