<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <meta content="pandoc" name="generator"/> <meta content="Zhiming Wang" name="author"/> <meta content="2014-11-10T11:11:46-0800" name="date"/> <title>Average phone plan in the U.S. costs ten time as much as that in the U.K.</title> <link href="/img/apple-touch-icon-152.png" rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"/> <meta content="#FFFFFF" name="msapplication-TileColor"/> <meta content="/img/favicon-144.png" name="msapplication-TileImage"/> <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport"/> <link href="/css/normalize.min.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="/css/theme.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> </head> <body> <div id="archival-notice">This blog has been archived.<br/>Visit my home page at <a href="https://zhimingwang.org">zhimingwang.org</a>.</div> <nav class="nav"> <a class="nav-icon" href="/" title="Home"><!--blog icon--></a> <a class="nav-title" href="/"><!--blog title--></a> <a class="nav-author" href="https://github.com/zmwangx" target="_blank"><!--blog author--></a> </nav> <article class="content"> <header class="article-header"> <h1 class="article-title">Average phone plan in the U.S. costs ten time as much as that in the U.K.</h1> <div class="article-metadata"> <time class="article-timestamp" datetime="2014-11-10T11:11:46-0800">November 10, 2014</time> </div> </header> <p>To quote <a href="http://blogs.opera.com/news/2014/11/mobile-data-anyway/">Opera News</a>,</p> <blockquote> <p>According to research by the International Telecommunication Union, the average phone plan with 500MB of data costs $85 in the United States, compared to $24.10 in China and $8.80 in the United Kingdom.</p> </blockquote> <p>Holy shit!</p> </article> <hr class="content-separator"/> <footer class="footer"> <span class="rfooter"> <a class="rss-icon" href="/rss.xml" target="_blank" title="RSS feed"><!--RSS feed icon--></a><a class="atom-icon" href="/atom.xml" target="_blank" title="Atom feed"><!--Atom feed icon--></a><a class="cc-icon" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" title="Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license."><!--CC icon--></a> <a href="https://github.com/zmwangx" target="_blank">Zhiming Wang</a> </span> </footer> </body> </html>