Comments on: Broadband prices vary extremely across the world

By: Sriram Iyer

Sriram Iyer — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 16:26:53 +0000

I live in Hyderabad,India and i pay around $52 for 6 months with a speed of 100Mbps for 360GB worth of downloads.Think that is fair enough

By: Fab

Fab — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:55:10 +0000

Why do Australians pay per mb for downloads compared to most other countries that do not? For e.g. I have friends in the Philipines that only pay for their speed, they choose a speed that suits them but they get unlimited download ability, same with my brother who lives in Dubai, he also only pays for his connection speed not megabytes or usage, it’s all unlimited broadband. In Australia they are always talking about getting faster speeds, however I found the faster speeds annoying and frustrating. When you have limited usage for e.g. 50 gig per month 12 gig per week between your whole family to use, the last thing you want is it running out and copping high costs for going over or even worse getting slowed down to dial up speeds(remember dial up) Now my problem is that if I go to watch a video on YouTube on higher speeds it buffers the complete video before I even know if I want to watch it or not, at that point you have already paid to watch the video because it has completely buffered which counts toward your download limit. I hope this makes sense? So you see High speeds are of no advantage to countries that pay per mb. I have my internet slowed down so that when I click play on a video, the buffer stays just ahead of the part I’m watching, so that if I decide to stop the video, I have not paid for the whole thing to be buffered/Downloaded. Many countries have unlimited broadband and we suckers on the Island at the end of the world seem to not even realise we are one of the few that pay per mb. This practice has to stop as it does not cost anything to produce a mb therefore it’s only the speed that costs these companies and that is all they should charge for. In Australia we get Charged for our speed and our usage, how is this fair?

By: Chirantha

Chirantha — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:19 +0000

In reply to krishan22. krishan22 Boardband packages != 3G packages... They are talking about Fixed Line connections

By: Chirantha

Chirantha — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:58:29 +0000

This is really not true. In Sri Lanka the cheapest broadband package is indeed $5.5. However you only get 1GB or 2GB of Data. The cost of bandwidth is around $4 US per GB of data. Which is compared to an normal income of a person is very high.
The world is moving on with bandwidth intensive applications and thus the situation is bitter for many Sri Lankan’s because its not about obtaining broadband… its about paying the bill afterwards. I suspect that this article is written by pro-government supporters who are trying to show off a masked Lion.
In 2009 The TRC (Telecommunication regulatory body) indirectly forced ISP’s to abandon unlimited packages leaving people to pay bills of Rs. 21,000 (200USD) for using 60GB of data compared to the Rs. 1800 (15USD) they paid for the same service.

By: krishan22

krishan22 — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:45:25 +0000

there are way more cheaper broadband and mobile internet packages in Sri Lanka than the one mentioned aove starting from as low as $ 0.99 p.m

By: krishan22

krishan22 — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:44:13 +0000

A Sri Lankan here…

By: Mel Ditt

Mel Ditt — Sun, 12 May 2013 08:08:35 +0000

Mew …isso é historia pra boi dormir… Eu tinha speedy light qdo morava no brasil e pagava uns 70 reais…por 215 mb que nunca foram alcançados… Aqui minha internet é de 40 GB e eu pago R$50,00 ….incluindo tv acabo e telefone por sinal….

By: Fernando Trebien

Fernando Trebien — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:56:14 +0000

So I’d like to see how were these values calculated.

By: Fernando Trebien

Fernando Trebien — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:55:59 +0000

It doesn’t make much sense to me. I think it’s expensive (and low quality) in Brazil and when I was in Europe (even in Norway) and also in Canada it seemed cheap and robust.

By: Evelena Boening

Evelena Boening — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:17:57 +0000

Na OI não é o price que me amedronta é a confusão que eles fazem,