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51 euros per gigabyte is absurd.

You think €51 per GB is absurd? I have a Vodafone prepaid connection from Germany. Currently traveling in Switzerland, Vodafone informed me my roaming data charges are 17ct per 50 Kb.

A little back of the envelope calculation and that puts my rate at €3.500 per GB. Now that's an absurd value!!

I'm curious if that was postpaid. My prepaid Vodafone data started working EU-wide without extra charges just over a year ago.

> Gut zu wissen: Du nutzt Deine Highspeed-MB mit Deinem CallYa-Tarif ohne Aufpreis in der ganzen EU. Falls Du den Basispreis oder Deine Tarif-Option nicht zahlst, kostet ein MB 5,95 Cent.

Switzerland is not in the EU

Switzerland is not in EU, so the prices for there are not regulated.

As a result on my prepaid CallYa plan, I have insane charges when roaming here.

They used to be charging multiple euros per MEGABYTE. You can see why regulation was needed.

It is.

In 2008 I downloaded 30 MB Firefox nightly on a ThinkPad whilst roaming in Serbia. Bad move. Set me back ~600 EUR.

I didn't know this beforehand, but I was 'lucky' to struck a deal with Vodafone to cut the cost in half.

Serbia isn't in EU though, and this was in 2008.

7.7 EUR/GB is still absurd, it's 2017.

That's 77 euro for 10GB. For that money you can buy a 1TB harddrive, send it by mail, and it will be faster still.

You'll have to use one hell of a postal service since 200mbit/s LTE is common now (1TB will take around 12h).

LTE in EU, not so much :), it's available just now widely adopted

I think when I (a European) visit the US, my roaming cost is about 15 euro per MB. You read that right, MB. Not GB.

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