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>Americans are going to be livid when they learn how cheap data plans are in India. The reason this works is free market, unlike the US where the likes of Comcast have monopoly in the regions they operate.

What does Comcast have to do with the price of cellular data?

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Because they're Xfinity Mobile. Their plans are $12 per GB of data.

But they don't have a monopoly in any area. Xfinity Mobile is just a Verizon MVNO. Grandparent is simply using the wrong company as an example.

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