Meanwhile in Germany:
- you can't even send an email to tax authorities and have to print/send paper letters
- mobile internet is very slow and super expensive.
- until recently it was not even possible to share your wlan
- you can't even send an email to tax authorities and have to print/send paper letters
- mobile internet is very slow and super expensive.
- until recently it was not even possible to share your wlan
Why? There's proportionally more manpower, and even more than money than that.
In case of Germany the problem might be that they do not need to change much as everything is okayish. In Estonia they knew they had kind of nothing after the 90's and there was a real need to reinvent themselves.
Is there a lack of competition in the mobile service provider market? Bad regulation?
> Is there a lack of competition in the mobile service provider market? Bad regulation?
Probably too few competition. I live in Germany and have not yet looked into this much, but I think Deutsche Telekom could be still a problem creating the majority of the infrastructure and offering usage for others probably only via higher fees. Similarly why there is no real competitor to Deutsche Bahn in the train sector.
https://www.telekom.de/unterwegs/tarife-und-optionen/smartph...
In Thailand last january I paid 9€ for a 4G Sim that lasted me 1 month with something like 21GB allowance.
Plus LTE's speed is limited here. Thanks to the EU rules on roaming I'm now using my Italian Vodafone seem for data :(
India. I live in Mumbai and use Airtel; apparently the plan I was using got discontinued, so I'm going to bump myself up to the 3 GiB/day for 30 days plan at ₹550 (~€7.5). This is considered expensive here, with cheaper options like Jio readily available.
Many tax authorities will communicate with you via email if you sign a form that you understand that email is not encrypted (for regular questions, proper applications need to be done via Elster).