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title: "Average phone plan in the U.S. costs ten time as much as that in the U.K."
date: 2014-11-10T11:11:46-0800
date_display: November 10, 2014
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To quote [Opera News](http://blogs.opera.com/news/2014/11/mobile-data-anyway/),

> 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.

Holy shit!