All this talk about net neutrality has got me thinking about how much a free market actually does to keep price competitive, especially with all the monopolies that telecommunication companies have all over the world.

I currently pay $40 USD a month for 200Mbps fibre internet, home line with free local calls and a "slightly" unreliable IPTV. And more for cable TV obviously. I could have 1 Gbps for the same price without IPTV but no switching mobile phones every year. So how much do you pay for your internet? I live in Singapore BTW and I feel so bad about complaining right now...

Actually I just want to give away a copy of Contrast but need a reason to open a thread. LVL 1 and above only though.

Edit: Over sorry.

P.S. Obligatory John Oliver video. That man's a genius.

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Do you feel ripped off by your telco/carrier?

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Mediacom Ultra Plus
150Mbps Download / 20Mbps Upload
2000 GB monthly usage allowance
$ 75.00 Month
Fastest around this small town. Me yes.

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30€/month for:

  • Download up to 20 mbps (real around 12)
  • Upload: 0.60 mbps
  • Unlimited phone calls both to home numbers and cellphones
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10€ a month for 10/1. Which is never reached.

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~20$ - 30Mbs. Theoretically it's up to 30Mbs but I always have around 3.5 MB/s

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In Germany it costs about 35€ for 50k mb/s and 40 for 100k mb/s

1 € = 1,1192 $
35 € = 39,1694$
40 € = 44,7930$

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$80USD for 24Mbps/1.5Mbps T_T;

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Even without the common monopoly problem much of the world has with teleservices, you get the problem we have here, that's called polyopoly, and is perfectly legal sadly. All the big companies just agree to not compete so they all profit. It's getting better, especially the cell market, so many small companies popping up in recent years destroying the big evil guys prices.

Polyopoly behavior is extremely illegal in the banking industry, a bank can be straight up shut down for it, and that's how it should be with all businesses

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https://gyazo.com/e8b61ded536971905178d8f07975a617

price? hmm lets say - below 20 euros

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100 Mbit for 19.90€

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I pay around 40 USD here in France. There is no fiber where I live, but for that price I have 1.7 to 1.8 Mo/s real download speed. It's DSL, so bandwidth is not symetric: uploads are slow as about 110 ko/s peak. There is also in the package a TV box with blu-ray player and many included channels (it' working fine), and unlimited country-wide calls (static lines and mobiles). I guess some foreign countries are also included as unlimited calls (maybe static lines only for this part).

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UP and DL 20Mb/s, 20ms, no FUP, 20$/Month.

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Something like 16$. It's like 1000RUB in my currency. 100Mbps. Not that bad.

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The worst internet in the world is provided in my country
30$/month for only 250 kb/s
After this you won't take your internet speed for granted

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& I should add that the bandwidth is limited

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100/100 mbps
$7.5 per month

Russia, St.Petersburg

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$30 for 10Mbps and unlimited country calls.

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I pay around 13$ per month for 1GB/sec bandwith.
I live in Romania, of course, home of the best and cheapest internet in Europe.

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Gbps mate

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Same shit.

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not at all

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8$ for 12 Mbs/1 Mbs (down/up)

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13 euro per month for 1Gbps download and 100mbps upload

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15$ for 50 Mb/s

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40-42€ (around 47 USD) for 30Mbps VDSL and local calls.

It is the cheapest ISP in Spain (Europe).

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I pay $34 for supposedly 38Mbps unlimited Fibre connection.

In reality: sometimes 4mb/s download speed but usually the net is so slow that even a 240p youtube video won't load. However I think it's because of the cheapo crappy usd wifi adapter I have that frequently overheats and drops the line.

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Speed : 40 Mbps/ Unlimited
Contract : 24 months
Monthly cost : 15 eur

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About 12$ month for 10MB/s not Mbps :)

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I pay 0€/month

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8Mbps/512Kbps
It's free. At least for me. My employer pays it. :)

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