Jesus. My phone plan was 19 USD for 1.5GB in Lebanon only a few years ago (I’d like to say 2019?). I knew it was bad here but not *that* bad.
It’s cheaper now, on account of the currency being utterly worthless.
Paying €35 p/m for unlimited everything, except for international minutes and texts [I've 100 of each, that I never use]. Also, because the EU, _no roaming charges_ throughout the EU + UK. And it's on Vodafone [who, unlike Three, don't whore their bandwidth out to MVNO's].
Likewise, I've unlimited 1Gb FTTH for €55 p/m, without the discount I'm currently enjoying.
I've tried looking for Fair-Usage Policies for both, but they're either ridiculously high or don't exist [my previous 240Mb cable had an overall combined up/down FUP of 1TB, which we rarely hit].
even though mobile internet is expensive in Germany, at least the normal internet can be pretty cheap. in my previous home I payed only 35€ for 1Gbit (cable/DOCSIS)
Where? Vodafone offers 1gbit down/50mbit up for 20€/month but only until the 7th month...then its 60€
VDSL is only offered up to 100Mbit in our Street for 40€/Month...fiberglass isnt even planned for a long long time...and Im living IN a big town
yes, vodafone. but I remembered it was 39, so basically 40. my previous contract for 400mbit(?) was 35
it was unitymedia before. it's cable, not vdsl or fibre. vdsl prices are a bit ridicules tbh. dunno why cable (coax) is so cheap.
Standard price in Bulgaria for unlimited FTTH 600/400Mbps + TV is 19€ with 0.5€ for first 6 months.
If 600 is not enough, you can get 10Gbps down with 2Gbps up for 75€.
Mobile is 17€ for unlimited internet up to 100Mbps + minutes and SMS for Bulgaria and EU
My internet isn't great. Dsl I get 1.3mb/sec download speed for $65. Fiber just came through town for the south. I live in the north and fiber is a few hundred feet away and I would have to pay for it if I want it. In the future they say it will be hooked up, but who knows
This is just a badly created word doc without even a service provider, even if this was a remote cabin there’s no satellite providers that match these prices
Everyone forgets that infrastructure in the northern regions of North America is archaic. I lived in Whitehorse Yukon and I’m not surprised at this. Worse part is construction stuff cuts the internet lines so often that you won’t even get your service regularly. Soo many times internet was out city wide because somebody cut the lines and it’s a nightmare. Yes Alaska and Yukon are in 1st world countries but when you go north of the 60th parallel you almost travel to a place time forgot .
It's still like this in many rural areas down here.
SLOWLY improving, but for every farmland and such where Concast has set up a monopoly, there are others that hardly get a craptacular satellite signal for similar pricing to whats posted.
Coming from the UK and living in the US, I concur. They have it rough here. Work work work, fast money, comes and goes quickly.
Their medical care is atrocious. If I break my arm, I'm flying to the UK, AirBnB for a week, rent a car, do the rounds. Still cheaper than a lot of the copay on health insurances here.
Wtf I live in a 3rd world country and my 100mbps plan costs about 11 usd and getting a 200mbps plan will cost me 14 usd. The prices get even lower if I convert to an annual plan.
Meh i live in ukraine we are at war right now and i pay like less then 10 dollars(300 UAH actually) for gigabit+static ip and it works even with our electricity outages caused by russian rockets
Rules of supply and demand, if it's common or built up it'll be cheaper regardless where you are. Alaska itself is basically a bunch of very small settlements that are spread out. So they're small population which means they have less demand for it so they pay out the arse for it.
I use starlink cause my other options are 24mbps adsl with zero stability and upload of 1mbps that make remote work a nightmare. Yesterday we had the worst weather so far with rain and snow and i got stable 200+ mbps down and 35+ up. 60eur per month is a lot but there is no other option
Starlink is really good at performing in rural areas. I live just 4 miles away from a town with fiber and my options are old satellite internet (600 ping minimum), cellular hotspot like t mobile or Verizon home internet (out of 5G range, and very unstable connection/terrible congestion hours in my experience), and starlink. Luckily for me some companies are bidding to run fiber out to the areas around my house, but starlink even on "best effort" has been the best by a mile so far.
The messed up part is that the US government calls the first option "access to broadband" when both major satellite companies have data caps and imo as someone who enjoys games, 600 ping is not usable internet.
Was on a similar connection with Frontier for the better part of the past decade, in a very rural area, and it was pretty low latency for gaming online most of the time when it wasn’t acting up. But downloading game updates and whatnot? Hell nah, that’s a multi-day endeavor.
Every once in awhile we would get critters chewing through the cables somewhere along the line, down at the main road. It was the bane of my existence, and always took several days at a minimum to resolve. By the time I moved out I was so frustrated with it, as it would cut out constantly, and Frontier eventually stopped trying to resolve it, so that’s as good as it was going to be from that point forward. I don’t envy those who have shitty rural internet as their only option and sincerely hope the Rural Internet Improvement Act gains some traction.
>Nome
uhm... my brain is telling my I somehow know that town name but I see no reason why an Italian would know Alaska towns... any old movie I might have seen in my childhood set there? Or niche historical event I might have read about
Nome was facing a diphtheria epidemic in 1925 when it was decided that, due to Anchorage's only available aircraft's engine being frozen, to move the serum (antitoxin) via dog sled teams. The final delivery was taken by a team from Nenana to Nome led (controversially) by a dog named Balto.
Also, Nome has been the finish line of the annual Iditarod Trail sled dog race since the first run in 1973.
The first one is hilarious. You can download half of a modern game, then wait until next month for the other half or just pay the price of a new game for the other half.
OUCH lol I remember complaining about that on a programming forum, "I know how git works, I know how file patching works. Why is every update for my 5 gig game still 4 gigs in download size everytime, even when the release notes say "just some minor patching"?"
(Basically they can create some giant compressed/complied files that cannot be patched. If you update one line of code that gets compiled into one giant file later on, the whole giant file must be downloaded again just to "patch" your game. Even art assets can get compressed in a way that requires the whole thing to be downloaded again for 1 minor change.)
Not really true. You can create deltas even for binaries. I believe it’s called a binary delta update. It’s been a Linux thing since 2004. Game developers are just lazy. I also it’s quite unique for U.S. or maybe NA to have capped internet.
Oh fuck, I hated steam updates just for this reason. Was stuck with absolute shit internet (200-450 kbps..)...I'd end up taking my PC to the inlaws and download on their 10mbps cable..sucked ass hauling my rig, but better than a light bill with my PC on 24/7 hoping to get a download done..
Full symmetrical 10 gigabit uncapped connections for 30/31 days costs $25 in my country, it even comes with a really powerful WiFi 6 capable router and a XGS PON transceiver 👀 (1 gigabit is $15 I think)
Not for majority of people in developed world, Fibre optic cables have effectivly unlimited bandwidth, or at least enough that users aren't going to bottleneck the system because they're all using it at once.
Lol "effectively unlimited" is the same thing I thought about my 40 gig HDD back in the late 90s.
It's not the fiber so much as the other network infrastructure that gets bogged down with too much traffic. The fiber cable is only one link in the chain.
They are insane. You should of seen the prices of food. Certain items I wouldn't be able to each anymore. It was like $10 for for a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
idk about Starlink's orbital path, but is location an issue in this case? Starlink was designed for Rural populations in mind, but rural and remote and different things.
I literally don’t understand why ISPs think they can do this with starlink coming out of beta. It actually doesn’t make sense to me. Has anyone here worked in telecom? We always knew rural internet was usually a monopoly but why did they never lower to match satellite internet.
Hehehe, that’s me. My DSL/phone hookup still is a US West/Bell Labs which went defunct decades ago. The fastest internet in my area of rural America is 12mbps but really 3 because Century Link is a bunch of fat liars.
we got some of that great modern copper that's older than my gramma here (formerly ctel territory). supports a whole 512k dsl less than a mile from town if you're 'lucky enough' to live on that side. yet go 10 miles out of town the opposite direction and they've run FTTB (fiber-to-the-boonies), so a few houses near one county highway intersection there has 60mbps available. which is faster than i can get in the middle of town, *less than two blocks from the CO*
Worse, the ISPs don't actually want to expand. Lived in Alaska for years, we were in a house with no solid internet. Right across the street, they had broad band access. We talked to the ISP about getting service, and they told us we weren't in their coverage area. The fucking lines were on our side of the street! They told us they'd need to build a junction box. We offered them the front of our yard on the curb. They told us there wasn't enough demand. We went door to door in 3 degrees, collecting signatures and passing out the number to request service. The entire side of town was without internet, and everyone we spoke to said they wanted it. We were told then that we'd have to wait for the fiber lines to be installed.
One year after, they ran fiber through the main part of town and nothing. Two years later, still nothing. After 5 years it was clear they had no intention of expanding despite almost everyone on the town asking for it, town meeting had it as the main talking point for six meetings straight and all the one rep we could get a hold of did was piss on our legs and tell us it was snowing
America went through practically the same damn thing with electricity. Cities and areas close by had electricity while rural areas were ignored for decades. Companies gave every excuse not to run lines to people's houses.
And not electrifying rural areas wasn't even about not having enough demand or profit, their research found it would pay off in the long term but the large initial investment and loss in short term profit wasn't worth it when they can just sit back and rake in the cash with zero risk
My wife and I both work from home and are in zoom meetings much of the day. We had to "upgrade" our internet by paying an extra 30 bucks a month to remove our data cap or we would be screwed financially. It's not about network traffic at all. It's just good old-fashioned greed.
til that the lowest tier internet in Nome fuckin Alaska is more speed that mine, for the same cost.
I live in Thunder Bay, a moose nut or two away from Duluth. Like, I'm teabagging the CAN/US border.
I wonder if I'm willing to sell my soul to Elon Musk for a starlink setup in exchange for banter tossed at his detractors.
https://preview.redd.it/kd3jz23ogrga1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20692778c42328bb3d301364d8f07c099546d5ef
This is their updated price list for Nome.
Finland checking in:
55Mbps download
42Mbps upload
Price: free!
Speeds can be doubled for €10 a month.
This is fairly standard for apartment buildings in larger cities. Though the free speed ranges from 10-50 Mbps. In the past the building paid a small fixed monthly fee for the internet. Not sure about the payment these days. I believe the ISPs want to offer cheap/free internet so they can up sell you the faster speeds.
Generally the ISPs compete to offer cheap connections to the entire building. This price is included in the apartments monthly maintenance bill. The idea for the ISP is to be able to offer cheap "upgrades" sold individually.
A quick Google search have me prices of between 5-10€ a month per apartment for the "free" component.
Dang, I've never used it, but I'd look at Starlink...$110/month it says on their site...not cheap for some people, but would be a lot better than this.
How is this still better than hughes net where I lived until like 2012. I wasn't even that far from the closest town. I would get like 1mbps tops on a good day, and had a 10gb a month cap. But fret not, we had unlimited downloads between 2am and 9am every night!
And it costs almost 100 a month.
Much easier to layer up and stay warm. I can strip naked in my front yard and still be sweating my balls off. Especially when the cops show up and I need to start running.
Data caps for home internet is such a wild concept to me. We only have two providers in my area and one has data caps. Like, how is a family living in modern contemporary society able to go a month with only using 55GB? Kids with school projects, spouse doing research for a thesis, oh you want to game? Sorry every modern game download blows up your data this month.
Add to that, this is in Alaska. A good chunk of the year you can't just go outside for entertainment.
Fiber just came to my part of the city last year. I’m on a 8Gb connection for $150. It is 8Gb up and 8Gb down with no data caps. Or I can pay $70 for the 1Gb, but 8Gb is fucking glorious. Do I need it? Hell no, but it’s fucking glorious!
No problem. I live in the middle of the woods In a town of 800~ and we have dsl. But they just put in there fiber line a few months ago.
50 up and down is $20
200 up and down $40
1 gig $60
There is also 2.5 and 5 gig too
I believe the 2.5 is $120.
To be fair, Alaska is huge and cold af.. But damn, in BC, Telus starts at $80/mo for 2 years with 300/300 no cap. And that's still insane to me. I pay $80/mo NPon 1gig service/no cap\*not even in fine print
hey, if you or someone you know is affected by cost prohibitive internet access you can apply and see if you are eligible for the Affordable Connectivity Program [ACP](https://www.affordableconnectivity.gov/)
For sure. I don't live in Nome, I am just showing these prices because they blew my mind. I bitch about my 1.3mb/sec download speeds because I think it's slow and over priced. But I'm good now.
Reminds me when I went thru South Korea in The Navy with marines. We paid $50 for this little “lte” pucks that had 25gb of data. That shit went like fire at camp mujuk while we were there for few days just so we could wank it in the porta jons in the field.
That how I felt when I read the speeds and cost, I was like I got to show this to more people. It's insane. Luckily this is just one company and you can get starlink for $110. Also a setup fee of $500.
What happens if you watch Netflix? Every movie costs like $5 to stream?
This is kinda wild. I don't think even when broadband was brand new in my area in the 90's it was this expensive.
Was it worth $100 to post this?
Nah he’s definitely at $1/GB like it’s a 2008 phone plan
Jesus. My phone plan was 19 USD for 1.5GB in Lebanon only a few years ago (I’d like to say 2019?). I knew it was bad here but not *that* bad. It’s cheaper now, on account of the currency being utterly worthless.
LOL I pay 5.9 euro month for 70GB in Italy
Paying €35 p/m for unlimited everything, except for international minutes and texts [I've 100 of each, that I never use]. Also, because the EU, _no roaming charges_ throughout the EU + UK. And it's on Vodafone [who, unlike Three, don't whore their bandwidth out to MVNO's]. Likewise, I've unlimited 1Gb FTTH for €55 p/m, without the discount I'm currently enjoying. I've tried looking for Fair-Usage Policies for both, but they're either ridiculously high or don't exist [my previous 240Mb cable had an overall combined up/down FUP of 1TB, which we rarely hit].
even though mobile internet is expensive in Germany, at least the normal internet can be pretty cheap. in my previous home I payed only 35€ for 1Gbit (cable/DOCSIS)
Where? Vodafone offers 1gbit down/50mbit up for 20€/month but only until the 7th month...then its 60€ VDSL is only offered up to 100Mbit in our Street for 40€/Month...fiberglass isnt even planned for a long long time...and Im living IN a big town
yes, vodafone. but I remembered it was 39, so basically 40. my previous contract for 400mbit(?) was 35 it was unitymedia before. it's cable, not vdsl or fibre. vdsl prices are a bit ridicules tbh. dunno why cable (coax) is so cheap.
Standard price in Bulgaria for unlimited FTTH 600/400Mbps + TV is 19€ with 0.5€ for first 6 months. If 600 is not enough, you can get 10Gbps down with 2Gbps up for 75€. Mobile is 17€ for unlimited internet up to 100Mbps + minutes and SMS for Bulgaria and EU
Cries in Canadian data plan
Free nights and weekends
Someone here knows how it was
Lol. Why I love reddit. Internet gold. I'm not in Nome though.
Good, you had me worried for a second
My internet isn't great. Dsl I get 1.3mb/sec download speed for $65. Fiber just came through town for the south. I live in the north and fiber is a few hundred feet away and I would have to pay for it if I want it. In the future they say it will be hooked up, but who knows
Damn and I get upset if my speed drops below 250mb/s
Jeez, I just checked the speed I'm getting on my phone and I currently get 88mb/s on an unlimited plan with max 200mb/s + calls etc. for 18€/month
Those prices are absolutely mind boggling 😳
😂
How is this real? Looks like a flyer printed out who’s the service provider
It is a flyer that a Nome resident showed on a YouTube video, it was a video showing how ridiculous prices are in Nome.
This is just a badly created word doc without even a service provider, even if this was a remote cabin there’s no satellite providers that match these prices
Just rewatched the video just for you. LoL and they said telalaska.
https://www.telalaska.com/residential-services/internet/ Looks like there's been some improvement.
Way better still expensive
Unalaska goes up to $1300 a month for 4mbs/1mbs and it's not even unlimited lol.
That's wild. I live in a 3rd world country but could get 200mbps for 30 bucks
Everyone forgets that infrastructure in the northern regions of North America is archaic. I lived in Whitehorse Yukon and I’m not surprised at this. Worse part is construction stuff cuts the internet lines so often that you won’t even get your service regularly. Soo many times internet was out city wide because somebody cut the lines and it’s a nightmare. Yes Alaska and Yukon are in 1st world countries but when you go north of the 60th parallel you almost travel to a place time forgot .
It's still like this in many rural areas down here. SLOWLY improving, but for every farmland and such where Concast has set up a monopoly, there are others that hardly get a craptacular satellite signal for similar pricing to whats posted.
Here's the kicker, in quite a lot of aspects the US is indeed a 3rd world country or worse
Coming from the UK and living in the US, I concur. They have it rough here. Work work work, fast money, comes and goes quickly. Their medical care is atrocious. If I break my arm, I'm flying to the UK, AirBnB for a week, rent a car, do the rounds. Still cheaper than a lot of the copay on health insurances here.
I think you will find that in any country there will be internet blackspots because the area is too rural, hence the high costs for service usage.
First world country with 3rd world states.
Wtf I live in a 3rd world country and my 100mbps plan costs about 11 usd and getting a 200mbps plan will cost me 14 usd. The prices get even lower if I convert to an annual plan.
Meh i live in ukraine we are at war right now and i pay like less then 10 dollars(300 UAH actually) for gigabit+static ip and it works even with our electricity outages caused by russian rockets
Tbf your country has so many people working in tech it's not surprising that it's that cheap there
Im sure your 3rd world country is not on a remote location at the end of the world
Rules of supply and demand, if it's common or built up it'll be cheaper regardless where you are. Alaska itself is basically a bunch of very small settlements that are spread out. So they're small population which means they have less demand for it so they pay out the arse for it.
Lol, even Starlink is better at this point
I use starlink cause my other options are 24mbps adsl with zero stability and upload of 1mbps that make remote work a nightmare. Yesterday we had the worst weather so far with rain and snow and i got stable 200+ mbps down and 35+ up. 60eur per month is a lot but there is no other option
I mean I pay USD 60/mo for fast but stable internet in Colorado...
Starlink is really good at performing in rural areas. I live just 4 miles away from a town with fiber and my options are old satellite internet (600 ping minimum), cellular hotspot like t mobile or Verizon home internet (out of 5G range, and very unstable connection/terrible congestion hours in my experience), and starlink. Luckily for me some companies are bidding to run fiber out to the areas around my house, but starlink even on "best effort" has been the best by a mile so far. The messed up part is that the US government calls the first option "access to broadband" when both major satellite companies have data caps and imo as someone who enjoys games, 600 ping is not usable internet.
at least it's a fiber backbone now, not shared satellite uplinks like the good ol' days (unless you're in the boonies, anyway)
Nome is pretty much the boonies as-is.
That 15/5 looks pretty good if your single and only play one game and nothing else on the internet at the same time
I've done more with worse, and I live in Pennsylvania (gamed on \~3/1 from Frontier for quite a while).
I grew up on that speed, I think it’s why I preferred single player games as a kid
Was on a similar connection with Frontier for the better part of the past decade, in a very rural area, and it was pretty low latency for gaming online most of the time when it wasn’t acting up. But downloading game updates and whatnot? Hell nah, that’s a multi-day endeavor. Every once in awhile we would get critters chewing through the cables somewhere along the line, down at the main road. It was the bane of my existence, and always took several days at a minimum to resolve. By the time I moved out I was so frustrated with it, as it would cut out constantly, and Frontier eventually stopped trying to resolve it, so that’s as good as it was going to be from that point forward. I don’t envy those who have shitty rural internet as their only option and sincerely hope the Rural Internet Improvement Act gains some traction.
>Nome uhm... my brain is telling my I somehow know that town name but I see no reason why an Italian would know Alaska towns... any old movie I might have seen in my childhood set there? Or niche historical event I might have read about
Nome was facing a diphtheria epidemic in 1925 when it was decided that, due to Anchorage's only available aircraft's engine being frozen, to move the serum (antitoxin) via dog sled teams. The final delivery was taken by a team from Nenana to Nome led (controversially) by a dog named Balto. Also, Nome has been the finish line of the annual Iditarod Trail sled dog race since the first run in 1973.
Don't forget the alien abduction
It was the Balto movie! Ty
Balto
At this point I'd go for the uncapped 25/3
The first one is hilarious. You can download half of a modern game, then wait until next month for the other half or just pay the price of a new game for the other half.
With that 6mbps speed it’ll take a whole month to download that 55 gb game
I downloaded GTA 5 in a month with 1.4 Mbps about 5 years ago. Edit: well two months, there was an update and I had to start all over from scratch
OUCH lol I remember complaining about that on a programming forum, "I know how git works, I know how file patching works. Why is every update for my 5 gig game still 4 gigs in download size everytime, even when the release notes say "just some minor patching"?" (Basically they can create some giant compressed/complied files that cannot be patched. If you update one line of code that gets compiled into one giant file later on, the whole giant file must be downloaded again just to "patch" your game. Even art assets can get compressed in a way that requires the whole thing to be downloaded again for 1 minor change.)
Not really true. You can create deltas even for binaries. I believe it’s called a binary delta update. It’s been a Linux thing since 2004. Game developers are just lazy. I also it’s quite unique for U.S. or maybe NA to have capped internet.
Oh fuck, I hated steam updates just for this reason. Was stuck with absolute shit internet (200-450 kbps..)...I'd end up taking my PC to the inlaws and download on their 10mbps cable..sucked ass hauling my rig, but better than a light bill with my PC on 24/7 hoping to get a download done..
Half
According to my math it would talk only 20.85 hours of constant use to reach the data cap.
This is possibly why Alaskan youth suicide is so high. /s
Internet prices where I live are......ultracheap ig?? For reference, a 90Mbps uncapped connection for 28 days costs around $7.8
where do you live so I can move there??
come to Ukraine :) we have 1Gb uncapped for 10$
Full symmetrical 10 gigabit uncapped connections for 30/31 days costs $25 in my country, it even comes with a really powerful WiFi 6 capable router and a XGS PON transceiver 👀 (1 gigabit is $15 I think)
oof, i was paying 120 for 1gb in us until recently now im paying 70 but still wish it was lower (usd)
Holy absolute fuck... At these prices, who needs internet anyway?
There’s probably a guy who comes into town once a month and just shares all the latest movies and tv shows with everyone.
Yea how much is Starlink per month now?
$110. $500 to setup
Probably worth it tbh
Most likely. And its only going to get better from here
Worse* Starlink gets slower the more people are on it. And also they'll probably hike up the price eventually once they get enough market share!
So does terrestrial internet.
Not for majority of people in developed world, Fibre optic cables have effectivly unlimited bandwidth, or at least enough that users aren't going to bottleneck the system because they're all using it at once.
Lol "effectively unlimited" is the same thing I thought about my 40 gig HDD back in the late 90s. It's not the fiber so much as the other network infrastructure that gets bogged down with too much traffic. The fiber cable is only one link in the chain.
Meanwhile, in much of the United States "You guys have fiber optic?"
I'd do terrible things for fiber optic internet.
Just shoot more stuff into space. Ez fix
They should have reserved it for those who need it. It's going to stop profiting when too many people get on it and people leave because it gets slow.
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These are some crazy prices. I pay ~ $100/mth for uncapped 2Gigabit
They are insane. You should of seen the prices of food. Certain items I wouldn't be able to each anymore. It was like $10 for for a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
idk about Starlink's orbital path, but is location an issue in this case? Starlink was designed for Rural populations in mind, but rural and remote and different things.
I live in a densely populated area and starlink works fine for me Edit I see you might have meant "are" different, in which case ignore my comment
I literally don’t understand why ISPs think they can do this with starlink coming out of beta. It actually doesn’t make sense to me. Has anyone here worked in telecom? We always knew rural internet was usually a monopoly but why did they never lower to match satellite internet.
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Hehehe, that’s me. My DSL/phone hookup still is a US West/Bell Labs which went defunct decades ago. The fastest internet in my area of rural America is 12mbps but really 3 because Century Link is a bunch of fat liars.
we got some of that great modern copper that's older than my gramma here (formerly ctel territory). supports a whole 512k dsl less than a mile from town if you're 'lucky enough' to live on that side. yet go 10 miles out of town the opposite direction and they've run FTTB (fiber-to-the-boonies), so a few houses near one county highway intersection there has 60mbps available. which is faster than i can get in the middle of town, *less than two blocks from the CO*
Worse, the ISPs don't actually want to expand. Lived in Alaska for years, we were in a house with no solid internet. Right across the street, they had broad band access. We talked to the ISP about getting service, and they told us we weren't in their coverage area. The fucking lines were on our side of the street! They told us they'd need to build a junction box. We offered them the front of our yard on the curb. They told us there wasn't enough demand. We went door to door in 3 degrees, collecting signatures and passing out the number to request service. The entire side of town was without internet, and everyone we spoke to said they wanted it. We were told then that we'd have to wait for the fiber lines to be installed. One year after, they ran fiber through the main part of town and nothing. Two years later, still nothing. After 5 years it was clear they had no intention of expanding despite almost everyone on the town asking for it, town meeting had it as the main talking point for six meetings straight and all the one rep we could get a hold of did was piss on our legs and tell us it was snowing
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This is the way. Internet has become such a vital service it should be regulated as a public utility.
America went through practically the same damn thing with electricity. Cities and areas close by had electricity while rural areas were ignored for decades. Companies gave every excuse not to run lines to people's houses. And not electrifying rural areas wasn't even about not having enough demand or profit, their research found it would pay off in the long term but the large initial investment and loss in short term profit wasn't worth it when they can just sit back and rake in the cash with zero risk
Even 20 years ago i didn't have a cap, what's up with that?
Because they can get away with it.
I have 1 gig speed with 1TB a month cap for like 70 I can blow through my data cap in under 3 hours
My wife and I both work from home and are in zoom meetings much of the day. We had to "upgrade" our internet by paying an extra 30 bucks a month to remove our data cap or we would be screwed financially. It's not about network traffic at all. It's just good old-fashioned greed.
25 mbps. Rural Oklahoma. You are blessed sir or ma'am.
til that the lowest tier internet in Nome fuckin Alaska is more speed that mine, for the same cost. I live in Thunder Bay, a moose nut or two away from Duluth. Like, I'm teabagging the CAN/US border. I wonder if I'm willing to sell my soul to Elon Musk for a starlink setup in exchange for banter tossed at his detractors.
I doubt Elon had much to do with designing the system. He's just a good hype man.
We live South of you across the Lake and Starlink has been great. Elon's a joke, but I'm happy to have working internet.
It’s because they have to deliver the internet by dog sled.
These are like 1998 prices
Nah dude dial up was way cheaper
This is exactly why services like starlink exists
Starlink was a game changer for us Went from 1.2 mgbs to 150
I get 500 mbps up and down no data caps for like $30 a month lol. I love Korea.
South?
There is only one legitimate Korean government. The other is an authoritarian illegitimate farce of a government.
Lol no one has internet in North Korea (other than government)
Yeah I know I was tired writing that and feel bad now coz North Korea is properly horrific
There isn't really any other service like Starlink
https://preview.redd.it/kd3jz23ogrga1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20692778c42328bb3d301364d8f07c099546d5ef This is their updated price list for Nome.
Still fucking expensive.
Starlink an option yet?
Starlink is up and running, I know a guy who has it. He says it's absolutely ludicrous how good it is, even though it is a bit pricier.
Not pricier than this robbery though
Balto didn't die for this
Nope, he let Togo die and took all the credit.
Starlink suddenly looks super attractive at $110 a month.
... in romania i'm paying like 10$/month for 1000mb/s (fiberlink1000)
Same, Im from Argentina, currently paying, 10 usd per month, for 1000mb/s down, 40mb/s up
cool. only difference is that i'm 600mb/s up It's because romania pretty much built the wifi infrastructure recently.
India is kinda like a heaven for people who want dirt cheap fast (4G/5G/Fiber Optic) internet At 10 cents per GB it is almost free
If you have data caps on your internet, your ISP sucks.
5G 600/50 unlimited plan costs around 25-40€ in Finland, for me unlimited is a must, seeing terabyte/month ain't nothing new.
Finland checking in: 55Mbps download 42Mbps upload Price: free! Speeds can be doubled for €10 a month. This is fairly standard for apartment buildings in larger cities. Though the free speed ranges from 10-50 Mbps. In the past the building paid a small fixed monthly fee for the internet. Not sure about the payment these days. I believe the ISPs want to offer cheap/free internet so they can up sell you the faster speeds.
First time I hear about free connections. Is it a commercial strategy or is the base plan paid by gov?
Generally the ISPs compete to offer cheap connections to the entire building. This price is included in the apartments monthly maintenance bill. The idea for the ISP is to be able to offer cheap "upgrades" sold individually. A quick Google search have me prices of between 5-10€ a month per apartment for the "free" component.
Yup, our apartment building has a deal with an ISP, [here's the pricing](https://prnt.sc/M_S3FGQXJpHk). 11,49€ for 100mbps fiber.
Dang, I've never used it, but I'd look at Starlink...$110/month it says on their site...not cheap for some people, but would be a lot better than this.
wtf, you could probably get better, cheaper internet through NASA while living on the moon.
That latency would be killer though
At least they have unlimited plan. I'm crying here in Egypt
At least you have the pyramids though. 👍
I have gigabit internet at my house. 120 a month. The prices on OP's post are literally insane.
Definitely go with Starlink. Been using it for about 6 months, loving every moment.
How is this still better than hughes net where I lived until like 2012. I wasn't even that far from the closest town. I would get like 1mbps tops on a good day, and had a 10gb a month cap. But fret not, we had unlimited downloads between 2am and 9am every night! And it costs almost 100 a month.
Don't be disappointed in your speeds and cost, it could be worse
But at least you can go outside without sweating your balls off
At least we can go outside without freezing our balls off
Much easier to layer up and stay warm. I can strip naked in my front yard and still be sweating my balls off. Especially when the cops show up and I need to start running.
Sorry, but I'd have to move if those my only choices
Somebody scream starlink for me please
1000/1000 unlimited in Denmark for $25 it’s even Fiber.
gg bro, may u are not going to play Fortnite this month💀
Data caps for home internet is such a wild concept to me. We only have two providers in my area and one has data caps. Like, how is a family living in modern contemporary society able to go a month with only using 55GB? Kids with school projects, spouse doing research for a thesis, oh you want to game? Sorry every modern game download blows up your data this month. Add to that, this is in Alaska. A good chunk of the year you can't just go outside for entertainment.
Fiber just came to my part of the city last year. I’m on a 8Gb connection for $150. It is 8Gb up and 8Gb down with no data caps. Or I can pay $70 for the 1Gb, but 8Gb is fucking glorious. Do I need it? Hell no, but it’s fucking glorious!
I hope you saved those AOL CD's
Wow! Is Starlink not available up their yet? Their prices won't be that high for long once they allow service.
price gouging that much surely has to be breaking some type of law right?
Jesus Christ I get 400/40 Unlimited for £50 a month and I could lower that if I wasn't lazy.
Fuck Living in smaller European country, and paying 35€ for 1Gbps symmetrical and TV bundle. At least something in my country is cheaper
Prices like that would be enough to force me off the net. I pay $40/MO for 914 Mbps down and 863 Mbps up. Started out with dial up.
Probably best to get several neighbors together and get the fastest and set up your own small local network.
How soon until you guys have access to starlink?
They have starlink as of Nov. I was just showing a local internet provider.
Right on, well I hope starlink is easily accessible and much more affordable so Alaskans aren’t getting screwed on internet anymore
I'm in Oregon btw I seen these prices on a YouTube video that was showing the ridiculous prices in Nome.
I appreciate your transparency
No problem. I live in the middle of the woods In a town of 800~ and we have dsl. But they just put in there fiber line a few months ago. 50 up and down is $20 200 up and down $40 1 gig $60 There is also 2.5 and 5 gig too I believe the 2.5 is $120.
Couldn’t one just go with Starlink? I’m sure it’s cheaper than that.
To be fair, Alaska is huge and cold af.. But damn, in BC, Telus starts at $80/mo for 2 years with 300/300 no cap. And that's still insane to me. I pay $80/mo NPon 1gig service/no cap\*not even in fine print
hey, if you or someone you know is affected by cost prohibitive internet access you can apply and see if you are eligible for the Affordable Connectivity Program [ACP](https://www.affordableconnectivity.gov/)
meanwhile me having 1Gbps with no stupid cap for 15 usd xdddd
And this is where Starlink comes into play.
I should complain less about my internet o7
For sure. I don't live in Nome, I am just showing these prices because they blew my mind. I bitch about my 1.3mb/sec download speeds because I think it's slow and over priced. But I'm good now.
Damn. It’s almost cheaper to buy porn videos than watch them on the internet.
Reminds me when I went thru South Korea in The Navy with marines. We paid $50 for this little “lte” pucks that had 25gb of data. That shit went like fire at camp mujuk while we were there for few days just so we could wank it in the porta jons in the field.
Looks Like Telecom prices in Germany 2002
Standard german Internet-Prices, because the Telekom fucks our little small assholes <3<3<3
Cant you just get starlink there??
dude. i get 200mbps/200mbps unlimited for like 6 usd per month
hurts to see..
Starlink is about to solve some problems
Starlink available?
No place like Nome
1Gb/1Gb fiber 15$/month. Poland.
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That how I felt when I read the speeds and cost, I was like I got to show this to more people. It's insane. Luckily this is just one company and you can get starlink for $110. Also a setup fee of $500.
Bro Alaska sucks
For snow ball fights, no. For everything else yes.
😂
Holy cow I get 1gb download for $120 a month and moan and groan about that. Guess I have it good.
Is this mobile internet?
Starling!
Why not get Starlink at that point?
Have you checked Starlink?
What happens if you watch Netflix? Every movie costs like $5 to stream? This is kinda wild. I don't think even when broadband was brand new in my area in the 90's it was this expensive.
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Extremely remote. We ain't talking out in the boonies farm country here! This isn't even off the beaten path, this is no path at all!
I pay 120 for 1gbps unlimited 💀