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I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48

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Its okay man i don't mind paying 80 bucks a month for 1 phone with 500min Voice (i don't talk to anyone) // Unlimited Text (not an android user) // and 4Gb of data..........

I feel bad for those poor poor Cell Phone service providers, I hear that they have to cram all of us into these cell towers, and theres not enough to go around to everyone. They also have SUPER large overhead charges from all these people wanting to join the 10 towers in the bay area. But thats okay though because they are supporting us with jobs, and this awesomely fast internet connection. But there are Viable options to switch over too, if you wanted to get unlimited data THAT provider only has 1 tower, so their service is a little worse.

Korea will always think that they have it good over there, but they will never experience the truly awesome internet that we have here. :D

> I have no idea how the Koreans do it, but they do it.

It helps when your country is ~40k square miles. That's about the size of Kentucky.

Many large US urban centers meet or exceed the density of Seoul, this is a totally bunk argument when you get $10000 of overage charges in downtown new york.

On the other hand, the infrastructure in dense areas is probably used to subsidize the more sparsely populated infrastructure.

In some markets, you'd have a new player pop in covering just the city at the actual cost of running the system in a densely populated area.

For cell networks, there's not as much market for a phone that stops working when you go 5 miles west.

what helps even more is abundant fiber accessibility. if every tower in Kentucky had ten gigabit circuits for backhaul, you'd see 4TB for ~$50 be viable there too.

That's ridiculous.

Here in Canada, I can't even find that kind of upload bandwidth (4 MB/s) anywhere for my home internet. I can't even imagine what my bill will look like if I actually used 4TB with a 100GB limit (or 2GB for my 4G plan)...

Asia is known for having much better internet than America. This is nothing new. Americans normally pay more for less.

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