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fulafel on June 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The EU’s new roaming rules

8 E/GB is 3+ orders of magnitude more than the bandwidth cost for a telco.

lorenzhs on June 18, 2017 [–]

Right, but that's backbone traffic cost. The majority of total cost is going to be the wireless part of your data's journey. Interpolating from intranational data cost, 8€/GB is still a lot but maybe off by one order of magnitude, not three

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