Outside cities the only mobile connection here is 2G GPRS/EDGE. There is a joke that T-Mobile has 'the fastest EDGE network' FUP limits starts at 100 MB / month (for the price you get several GB in other countries around including reasonable coverage, we are so called 'specific market') and then you are throttled to 16 kbps. In reality to zero because it is not possible even read POP3 email over it since it allows to exchange few packets only per minute thus all services always timeouts.pianowizard wrote:each month only the first 1GB is at LTE speed, beyond which I am throttled to 128kbps.
Vodafone has introduced a 'clever' service of automatic recurring payments if you reach the FUP limit. The service was enabled to all customers (without notice) and when you turn it off it still automatically re-enables upon every change in your account. I believe that in the US this would lead to a lawsuit, here ... impossible.
As for extreme public prices of mobile services here we have something called 'grey operators'. It is not the same as official virtual operator. To explain this: if you buy a data plan from mobile provider as a end customer you pay lets say $30 for 3 GB / month. If a (even small) company wants to buy the same plan they get it for $10 or less. The company buys more plans then the actual number of employees and resells it (semi-legally) to end customers for $15 via internet forums etc. This is the only way to get a reasonable price over here