In a country (the US) where more and more people have unlimited data plans, what does it even mean to evaluate the cost of "1GB"? My T-Mobile plan gives me unlimited mobile data almost everywhere I go in the world for long periods of time and is in practice quite fast. How does that compare to a service plan that only covers me inside one country? What about in a country as tiny as Israel?
Freemobile in France also has (had?) complex rules covering what kind of connection gets you what kind of data (3G vs 4G connections had different data caps) and the French extended notion of "country". What are the equivalent of DOM/TOM for mobile operators in non-colonial powers?
The impressive thing about free was that your 4g cap was bigger. 4g is spectrally more efficient (one reason why it’s faster) so they wanted you to upgrade your phone.
Usually scummy télécoms try to charge you more for the faster service, even when it’s more efficient for them.
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In a country (the US) where more and more people have unlimited data plans, what does it even mean to evaluate the cost of "1GB"? My T-Mobile plan gives me unlimited mobile data almost everywhere I go in the world for long periods of time and is in practice quite fast. How does that compare to a service plan that only covers me inside one country? What about in a country as tiny as Israel?
Freemobile in France also has (had?) complex rules covering what kind of connection gets you what kind of data (3G vs 4G connections had different data caps) and the French extended notion of "country". What are the equivalent of DOM/TOM for mobile operators in non-colonial powers?
Test methodology can be found here (they do touch upon unlimited data aspect): https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.cable.co.uk/mobile...
The impressive thing about free was that your 4g cap was bigger. 4g is spectrally more efficient (one reason why it’s faster) so they wanted you to upgrade your phone.
Usually scummy télécoms try to charge you more for the faster service, even when it’s more efficient for them.