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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lack of healthy competition. It's plain to see from the other side of the ocean where I live... Is it maybe one of those things you can only see from afar?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

€20 every 28 days on a PAYG sim for unlimited 5g in Ireland, it's just boggling to see what folks in the US and Canada pay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP was about data caps on landlines... yeah, at first glance I too thought it could only be mobile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Land lines are becoming less of a thing here as well, their use has dropped from 86.9% in 2004 to 59.2% in 2019. I've not had one for over 15 years

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