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You don't know what kind of contracts are available for the GP.

In EU, getting a lot more is usually not a problem

Yeah, I'm in Portugal, and we pay €30 a month for unlimited (actually unlimited - no FUP or anything) data.

The ISP does do some traffic shaping, so they'll throttle video streaming at peak hours, but a €1 a month VPN busts around that no problem.

Not sure about the EU, but last time I was forced on LTE in home at the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.

Cellular plans from the major US carriers change every couple months. Throw in all the resellers and you have new plans every week. Describing a cellular plan from 5 years ago is like talking about a 286.

In addition to plans changing all the time...

US plans have a tendency to be much worse than EU due to lower competition

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