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US and Canada have the most expensive cellphone plans in the world
Brandon Davenport
“Oh! This is why my texting bill is so high!”
According to a new report from the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI), smartphone and cellphone users in Canada and the US tend to pay much more for a cell phone package than anyone else in the world. It doesn’t come as that much of a shock, but hearing this over and over again really makes me wonder if we really are “world leaders” in technology when we can’t even manage to afford half of it. Here is a great quote from Ars Technica’s Arsicle:
“When it came to voice minutes, the US, UK, and Canada had the highest postpaid rates, with an average of $0.18, $0.17, and $0.31 per minute, respectively. (The US and Canada’s per-minute rate was doubled in the report because customers pay for both incoming and outgoing calls.) India and Hong Kong came in with the lowest per-minute rates, at only $0.01 per minute, postpaid” — Read more over at Ars
