gHacks technology news » dsl http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How much are you paying for your internet connection ? http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/17/how-much-are-you-paying-for-your-internet-connection/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/17/how-much-are-you-paying-for-your-internet-connection/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:25:45 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/17/how-much-are-you-paying-for-your-internet-connection/ After reading the BBC report about broadband prices in 30 of the most developed countries I was wondering how much you actually paid for your connection to the Internet. The BBC article unfortunately revealed only marginal information and not the complete list of prices in all of the countries examined.

The result was that the cheapest megabit per second connection was available in Japan with $0.22 for every megabit while it cost $3.18 in the United States and $81.13 in Turkey. Japan and the Scandinavian countries have in large regions access to 100 Mbit fibre networks while the rest of the world relies mainly on cable and dsl for broadband access.

My broadband connection has a speed of 16 Mbit / 1 Mbit and I pay roughly $68 for it including phone and phone flatrate. I would of course prefer to subscribe to a 100 Mbit line but those are unfortunately not available right now. So, how much do you pay for your internet connection and how fast – or slow – is it ?

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