It's basically because outside of the UK, cal and data prices are inflated so much that it's basically legal theft. For example in the UK ou can get a SIM-only deal form a carrier called o2 which ranges between £15 and £30 a month and provides you with an obscene amount of stuff on an uber-convenient monthl rolling contract. For example, £25 a month gets you:
*1200 minutes (10 hours) to any network *1000 texts *Unlimited data *International call saver plan
And added to this for around £7.50 a month you can add on additional bolt-ons that get you anthing from unlimited calls to landlines to unlimited texts.
Compare that to Swisscom in Switzerland where £25 a month gets you a measly free 100 minutes and 50 texts, and data is extra (and expensive, you can add another £20 for 1GB), and you see just how screwed up the mobile market really is everywhere else.
As I said, legal theft, and the UK tariffs show exactl how much it costs carriers to maintain a cutting edge 3.5G network and still provide good value for money.
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It's basically because outside of the UK, cal and data prices are inflated so much that it's basically legal theft. For example in the UK ou can get a SIM-only deal form a carrier called o2 which ranges between £15 and £30 a month and provides you with an obscene amount of stuff on an uber-convenient monthl rolling contract. For example, £25 a month gets you:
*1200 minutes (10 hours) to any network
*1000 texts
*Unlimited data
*International call saver plan
And added to this for around £7.50 a month you can add on additional bolt-ons that get you anthing from unlimited calls to landlines to unlimited texts.
Compare that to Swisscom in Switzerland where £25 a month gets you a measly free 100 minutes and 50 texts, and data is extra (and expensive, you can add another £20 for 1GB), and you see just how screwed up the mobile market really is everywhere else.
As I said, legal theft, and the UK tariffs show exactl how much it costs carriers to maintain a cutting edge 3.5G network and still provide good value for money.