Posted by sebtek
Hello
Here in australia, i pay 2 cents per kilobyte (or 1cent Euro/US), thats around $20AU, or $10 euro/US$ for 1024k (1megabyte)
How does that compare to europe/USA?
Posted by ajack
Hi there! I am paying RM 0.05 for 10kb. USD 1 is RM 3.8 only. So you guys do the math. This is from the wireless carrier DiGi. On another carrier called Maxis. It costs RM 0.04 for 1kb.
Posted by wapchimp
On orange its £4 for half a megabyte-the more u buy the more it goes down
Posted by arus
Luck, On IM-3 still freeeeee.. hehehe....
Posted by antosha
We pay in Moscow, Russia USD 0,30 (incl. VAT) for 1 Megabyte. Not much.
Posted by cadcad
u have many bundles to choose from, i got this one:
60$ for 200MB and each additional MB costs 1.6$
Posted by sebtek
sheeeh - we get it pretty bad off.....
and the thing is - i think we've had GPRS for about 2 years now - its nothing new.
and its not a lack of competition - we do have 3 networks offering the service.
apparently in some countries - you pay a different amount for web browsing (on a pda/laptop), than you do accessing wap sites. That would be carrier specific wouldn't it be? (i'll be using GPRS on my sony CLIE n710c PDA via BT)
Posted by captainsm
10 euro for the first 5Mb then 2 euro/Mb
Posted by moua
10MB for 6€
, but 5€ for each more MB 
OR (you can pay the two options) :
6€ for unlimited wap access (but you can do only wap, no irc, icq, mail...)
Posted by Fulika
In hungary at vodafone:
Posted by zer0
In my network with my subscription, i pay 2,3 euro cents by kb, looks like im beeing robbed
Posted by tiidusk
I live in Holland and have the operator named BEN who gives 1024 Kbytes away with 1¤ (it still has also a monthly cost 15¤ for this packet
)
So i think Holland is in the middle or something...
Posted by sebtek
i cant understand why the price in russia, is something like a 10th of the cost anywhere else!
Posted by Jison
Vodaphone in Sweden
and I pay €7/month inkl. 2Mb
and if I exceed that i pay €2/Mb
Posted by deviltao
In sweden with Tele2 we pay nothing untill 31/10
it's great
Posted by roklipni
In our country the GPRS is new (since may i think) and it costs 6$/Mb, or if you prepay 8$ (including 2Mb), than every Mb costs 2$.
[ This Message was edited by: roklipni on 2002-08-22 11:33 ]
Posted by devis45
With VoiceStream in USA we pay $3 for 1 Mb a month, then the next plan up is $20 for 5 Mb. This assumes that you use your phone as a modem aswell as access WAP pages. There's more data plans. I currently subscribe to the 20 dollar plan. So far so good...
Posted by ja@mx
In my country Mexico Telcel, GPRS is new since March and it's free so far. Yipee.
Posted by roklipni
In our country one megabyte costs around 6$.
Posted by arnoldc
for the philippines operators globe telecom and smart communications, still free (almost a year already)
Posted by zmax
Russia Moscow Beeline
I pay 3 euro/US$ for 10 Mb,
WAP - 3.6 euro/US$ per 30 day (unlimited)
Posted by elvinchan
here in malaysia gprs usage both by time and data.... RM0.10 per 10kb, its roughly US0.025 per 10kb...
Posted by agentbob
i have an account with fido (www.fido.ca) here in Canada and they charge i think roughly $50 CAD/MB ($30 USD) if you pay per kb..... or *UNLIMITED* for $50 CAD/month which makes no sense to me. So I just pay for the unlimited and use it all the time.
Dan
Posted by wapchimp
As I said before - I only pay £4 a month as orange has a billing problem - they can't tell when u over ur bundle at the moment!!! so its unlimited - all those poor people paying £30 a month for a bigger bundle!! haha
Posted by masterino
In italy, vodafone-omnitel:
€ 0,03 every Kb.
so, 1 MB cost € 30 for WAP browsing.
web browsing (with a notebook connected via IRDA or similar)
cost € 0,006 every Kb
but it will be rounded to the upper 10Kb.
(i.e: if in one single connection you use only 2Kb, you will pay 10Kb.)
Posted by olympus12
In Greece with TELESTET is free until 31/12/2002!I have already downloaded 150 mbytes!
Posted by bigjobs
Has anyone not realised what a rippoff these prices are?
In UK it is 2p kb!!!
that means, and correct me if I'm wrong that a 3mb mp3 would cost
around £60 to download!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK not it's primary use, but they do mention music downloads in there advertising.
1 WAP page from my site (10 pics 3kb each) would cost 60p to download....60p for 10 101X80 pics...hmmmmm, something not quite right here.
Hello (bangs on head of corporate telecoms CEO) what are you thinking?
Posted by EddWo
do you think a UK network will ever have an unmetered bundle, it'd be worth paying £50 a month for, Using GPRS is faster than my normal modem, but at the current prices it is impossible to imagine using it for more than 2minutes at a time. I certainly hope they don't continue this rediculous level o pricing when 3G comes round. The prices are ok for simple phone based wap access, but they are marketing it as so much more than that.
Posted by wapchimp
EDDwo - its aimed mostly at business users in UK - big corporate customers - there is a £500 gprs bundle on orange!!!!! f**kin crazy
Posted by pinin_d
is it not a good idea to use gprs then?? as i have just got my phone and thought if it is on and better then best use it, but not at that price!
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Posted by EddWo
@orangeman, for that sort of money you could ge a wo way satalite connection, not very mobile i know but it will work anywhere. If these mad pricing schemes continue into 3G is definately won't be worth it. I don't care that the government ripped them off over the licences, this sort of pricing structure is extortionate.
Posted by sebtek
yeah well - i've finally got my palm Sony CLIE set up with GPRS.
Yes - at the moment it is a rip off - in most countries. as there are only 3 carriers in AU, they form an oligopoly (probably the same in most countries), and i doubt prices are going to go down for sometime. GPRS is a very new technology, and would you care to remember how much people paid for mobile phones about 5 years ago - certainly a hell of a lot more, than they do today.
We can't really do much about it - we'll just have to wait.
thanks,
Seb
Posted by wapchimp
orange will soon have an 'unlimited' gprs bundle for wap only @ £4.00 per month - 'unlimited' meaning a fair use policy of 10mb - which in comparison is a bargain!!
Posted by Vertical Mind
The Swedish TELIA network offers a few fifferent rates:
1: $10/month for 5 Mb
2: $30/month for 25Mb.
I use the first opption as I dont do much mobile websurfing, mostly WAP.
Posted by marius
In my country our only GPRS capable operator gives it for FREE. No date set for when they'll start billing.
Dialog GSM is the best.
Posted by vgergo
In Hungary we have 3 operators, the one I'm on (Pannon GSM) is the best! There are two possible GPRS WAP payment methods:
(1) Pay per kilobyte, then it's €0.00104/kbyte after 6pm (very cheap!), or €0,00333/kbyte between 8am and 6pm.
(2) Or,,, (since the middle of this month) you can pay €2.20 monthly for unlimited WAP access, and that includes data-call based WAP also! My T68i is almost constantly online, I have it check emails every 5 minutes
Best deal in Europe, I think.
Posted by Korova
@orangeman
£4.00 unlimited GPRS bundle.
What exactly do you mean, "WAP only"? Does it just exclude surfing the web on your laptop, connected to your phone via GPRS?
Any idea on when "soon" is?
Posted by wapchimp
only acces to wap service - still need a separate GPRS bundle for e-mails/web connection
Posted by aerryawan
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But now they charge 38.5,-/kb or almost 10$ per 5Mb, 2$ per Mb with count all actifity process such as send/receive. SUCK
Posted by aerryawan
IM-3 in indonesia now charge Rp.38.5,- or about 2usd$ per 1Mb. suck!
Posted by Joachim
In Belgium with Proximus it is 25 Euro for 10MB
Posted by GixxerForHire
AT&T WIreless in USA. $8 for 1mb, $13 for 4mb, and $20 for 8mb. It goes up from there. Its a new thing in the US. I'm in sales and people in the US are very stubborn at adopting new technology. I still have a hard time selling people SMS service.
Posted by langerdan
Vodafone Ireland prepaid is currently free (for me anyway).
O2 was free for a while but not anymore.
Posted by porterg
Cingular carolinas, $6.99 for 1mb. Just got T68i's here, finally
Posted by snap-hiss
ATTWS is free for unlimited MBs... oh wait.. that's the employee plan.. sorry...
!snap
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Posted by diegogalban
In Spain MoviStar offers quite a few options:
Prepay & contract:
Price per kb: 0,02€
1mb bundle: 6€
20mb bundle:20€
(free mms 'till jan!)
Vodafone
Prepay:
150kb bundle: 3€ (20€ for a meg!) (will be changed in feb)
Contract:
Price per kb: 0,02€
2mb bundle: 10€ (add mb: 5€)
20mb bundle: 30€ (add mb: 1,5€)
Amena
Prepay
Price per kb: 0,02€
Contract:
Price per kb: 0,02€
10mb bundle: 15€ (add mb: 2,1€)
25mb bundle: 30€ (add mb: 2,1€)
50mb bundle: 60€ (add mb: 2,1€)
So we're not that bad on gprs
Posted by Godzilla
Well here in sweden comviq has free gprs and unlimited amount MB at the moment. Will be about 4,9us$ later on for 3mb and then 2,1us$ per extra Mb. So seems like sweden is pretty cheap with gprs.