Not every country is the USA, many (most?) European countries have no issue with 4g coverage at sane speeds and data caps. If the new iPhone has 4g, the providers will be under that much more pressure to deliver, crippling your product because providers are greedy and slow to roll out is stupid.
I'm not from the USA, but agree the situation here is probably one of the worst in the world. However I've been to several countries in the past year and the best deals tend to be around 300 MB - 1 GB for anywhere between $10 and $30 a month sim-only. Assuming most people don't want to spend more than $40 / month on their data, that means 4G speed will eat your monthly allowance in minutes.
Also, in some European countries, like The Netherlands, Telco's are actually increasing the cost per gigabyte, blocking Skype and other competitors and reintroducing data caps. They lost a lot of money in the past few years and are trying to recover from that.
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Not every country is the USA, many (most?) European countries have no issue with 4g coverage at sane speeds and data caps. If the new iPhone has 4g, the providers will be under that much more pressure to deliver, crippling your product because providers are greedy and slow to roll out is stupid.
I'm not from the USA, but agree the situation here is probably one of the worst in the world. However I've been to several countries in the past year and the best deals tend to be around 300 MB - 1 GB for anywhere between $10 and $30 a month sim-only. Assuming most people don't want to spend more than $40 / month on their data, that means 4G speed will eat your monthly allowance in minutes.
Also, in some European countries, like The Netherlands, Telco's are actually increasing the cost per gigabyte, blocking Skype and other competitors and reintroducing data caps. They lost a lot of money in the past few years and are trying to recover from that.