Data point from Ukraine (Kyiv):<p>Unlimited data mobile 4G costs 100UAH per month (~9 EUR / ~$11 USD). Fast enough that a 300GB backup/recovery is no problem.<p>Home internet I don't actually pay for (I live in a rental), but the current plan costs the owner 200 UAH per month (~6 EUR / ~$7 USD), "gigabit port", unlimited data (realistic speed is up to 250 up/down).<p>Pretty sure there is some kind of "combo deal" for both, and I think the home internet price includes TV.<p>At these low prices, I'm not really interested in shopping around or checking the details of what I'm actually paying for - it's all incredibly cheap and fast enough.
For fast and cheap you can't overlook Romania, in the cities I've been in, the speed has been exceptional and reliable (which is more than I can say for most British internet, excluding the FTTH our current flat has).<p>E.g. <a href="https://www.digiromania.ro/servicii/internet/internet-fix/fiberlink-1000" rel="nofollow">https://www.digiromania.ro/servicii/internet/internet-fix/fi...</a>
Wow, where exactly can I get those prices? I'm in downtown SF and it's $80 not including tax for 200x20 cable. I also don't have the rental fee because I argued with them through three hours and two of my own modems until they finally auth'd my MAC address.<p>This is the best/cheapest connection I have had; my last connection in NY was 20x5 for $96/mo, also with my own modem. The cable company often tries to sell me a contract TV plan, in exchange for a small temporary package discount, but I un-want TV, so this is not appealing. Also, I hear that in some countries you can't advertise prices that omit tax and surcharges, but here you can.<p>So I think the US prices in the table are basically fake, where the real prices are about ~2x in my experiance. Just curious whether the prices in other countries are real.<p>Like can you really get internet for the equivalent of 30-40USD/mo?
> The only types of Internet service plans shown in the table are DSL and fiber optic cable plans. Since cheapskatesguide.org is about finding the best deals, I excluded from consideration categories of Internet services that I feel are not good deals.<p>Do you guys have especially rubbish cable internet in the US? Or especially amazing DSL? Cable is much better where I am in Into than DSL.
In France, Free just announced up to 5000mbs down and 700mbs up for 40€. Orange has 2000mbs down and 600mbs up for 50€, and may have better peering in general.
A datapoint for Serbia:
(prices are sampled per tier, there are more combinations possible)<p>Telekom Srbija (incumbent national provider)
(note: all prices with 24 month contract, 6.48$/mo mandatory landline fee should be added, VAT is included)
- 20/4 Mbps on VDSL2 - 16.69$/mo
- 100/10 Mbps on VDSL2 - 23.58$/mo
- 200/80 Mbps on GPON - 33.40$/mo
- 1000/400 Mbps on GPON - 88.41$/mo<p>Orion telekom (alternative provider)
(note: all prices with 24 month contract, VAT is included)
- 10/1 Mbps on WISP/ADSL2+ - 14.73$/mo
- 100/10 Mbps on VDSL2 - 18.66$/mo
"Special" offer without contract for GPON:
- 200/10 Mbps - 9.83$/mo
- 500/20 Mbps - 14.74$/mo
- 1000/50 Mbps - 24.57$/mo<p>Average monthly wage is 589$, minimum is 294$, yearly minimum 3528$, average 7068$.
It doesn't seem to differentiate between FTTC and FTTP fibre which has dramatic differences (74mbit vs gigabit), and most of the UK is still currently stuck with FTTC.
Notice the price in Japan, which is an island and so all in/out-bound traffic has to go through undersea cables. Similar story for South Korea, which for all purposes is also basically an island.<p>It's actually not even entirely uncommon for people to not have dedicated home internet and just get unlimited, unmetered, mobile service and tether when at home or use a wireless puck -- like bandwidth heavy users of streaming video.<p>The last time we were in those areas, our AirBnBs also didn't have home internet/Wifi. The hosts just provided a puck that we were allowed to take with us wherever we went and just tether to it while in a backpack. Even though we have Google Fi, it saved a ton on mobile data and offered full 4g data speeds literally every place we went.
I think this sampling is not good enough. Tikona is not even close to being a major player in India. I am paying 3.5$/month for a 4G connection with 1.5 GB data every day.
A year ago in southern Switzerland I was paying $40 for 10 GB symmetrical fiber. There was a $30 option through another carrier, but you get what you pay for right?
In northern Sweden, I get 30 down and I think like 3 or 5 up for approx. 35 USD/mo. I live in a very small town with only DSL available, or I guess 4G modem with very low cap but I don't think I know anybody who uses that.<p>In the nearest city, I think some friends recently got set up with 300 down for maybe 50-60 USD/mo.<p>For my family of 4, 30 down is okay most of the time. I don't have teenagers yet though, so ...
It's not viable to look only at raw price, because these ISP are amongst the most aggressive price marketing companies. They have bundles, they have 3, 4, sometimes 6 months promotions for new users, they negotiate a lot, etc
You can get 500/500 fiber for like €35/m in Estonia (if you bundle with your phone). Gigabit for the €50 range.<p>That sounds great, but considering the average salary is about €1500/m it’s actually really shit.
A data point from Hong Kong:<p>HK$138/m (US$17.80) for 1 gigabit (symmetric) fiber
HK$160/m (US$20.64) for unlimited LTE deprioritized after 20gb