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Germany guy living in Canada at the moment: German internet now seems super cheap for me. I had UnityMedia for years. 120Mbit/s and unlimited home phone for 25€ per month. You can triple that sum for Canada (90$ plus tax) if you don’t get any special deal. And deals are annoying, since internet providers randomly increase their prices even if you are on a contract. So even if are not constantly out on the watch for the next deal and complain regularly at customer service you will simply pay a lot.

Besides that the Canadian plans are capped (E.g. at 1 TB/month even at high prices), whereas I never had a capped plan in Germany.

Mobile phone plans are even worse, without even talking about coverage.

So yes, Germany is not great, but it can be worse.

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And the article's graph proudly shows Canada having the 3rd fastest mobile speeds.

Oh great, I can go through my monthly allotment in 5 minutes by clicking on the wrong link. So useful.

I've turned off LTE just so I get a chance to cutoff a click that turns out to be a 300pg PDF.

Yeah, I'm wondering the range. With 5g, imagine a typical limit in germany is 15gb. With 5g you blow though it within minutes in a bad scenario...

That's what they want... But still... A bad joke..

I can attest to that, having stayed in Canada for 2 years. US is also expensive. Germany is dirt cheap, but slow.

When people say Germany is expensive to the rest of Europe I think they need to check the salary levels in the rest of Europe. German internet and cell is probably cheaper going by percentage of average income.

It's only the lack of coverage (and maybe the blocked YouTube videos) that bother me in Germany.

> When people say Germany is expensive to the rest of Europe I think they need to check the salary levels in the rest of Europe. German internet and cell is probably cheaper going by percentage of average income.

The nordic countries have higher salaries. It's really against the trend: Pretty much everything is more expensive in sweden and denmark, except Internet connectivity.

Well german telecom tried to introduce caps into internet plans ~5 years ago at around 200GB. But that caused so much outrage, that they rolled back on that decision and ultimately you only get a cap on the cheapest of providers. I mean try downloading GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption for PS4/PC, and you have already used up your datacap.

Mobile Plans are so expensive, because we germans auction away the licenses for the Frequencies for billions.

Compare that to the roughly 8€ I pay for gigabit connection for my apartment in Stockholm. Which is a better deal than normal since the deal is that the whole house also have it, without being able to opt out, but still.

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