Why would the Dishy hardware price be different for locations as well the hardware cost isn't?
> wish I had enough money to complain about discounts!
I am quite sure I have even less than money you. We complain because it is unfair.
Incidentally, overcharging is one reason one becomes the richest or second richest man in the world [1].
[1] https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#34ebc7873d78
It's even more expensive in Africa. Where you'd think it shouldn't.
Also, costs are not geographically uniform. They need regulatory permission to operate in a country, and some countries make that easier than others. Sometimes market access means paying lots of tax too.
In most nations, in even some totalitarian dictatorships(dictatorships hate those opinionated and powerful), you are only allowed to deny services by conditions and to extents tolerated by law.
Some developed countries are moving towards Internet and smartphones as human rights, and handing out phones to homeless people. That implies it's rather phone network operators that don't have the entitlement to speak of such entitlements.
The nation owns everything. The nation can take and give anything anytime so long its owners agree(the monarch, the dictator, the party, the people collectively). It's always been that way.
It cant take anything from an individual that they aren't willing to give up. They can make things very hard for them if they decide not to.
Maybe BGAN might be cheaper. But you aren't watching 4K TV on that