Re: [tlug] (off-topic) Unlimited data plan (mobile internet access) in Japan

[Benjamin Tayehanpour <benjamin@example.com>]

On 1 September 2014 09:15, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
>
> And I know the short-term 4G
> pre-paid cards here in Stockholm are really expensive.

Well, to be fair, short-term anything *will* be expensive, no matter
where you go. At least if the sellers have a little nous. Tourists are
recently topped-up with money, unfamiliar with the local currency, and
discombobulated in general. Things primarily aimed at the tourist
market will therefore be more expensive.

> Now *that* is a fantastic deal! I really miss Japan; I pay around 6000
> yen here for bloody 24 Mbps down / "2" Mbps up (meaning 0.6, of
> course) DSL. :(

Where the heck in Stockholm do you live? :S A friend of mine pays
~2500¥ for 100/100, which is about on-par for reasonably new areas
with access to öppet stadsnät. I pay 6000¥ for a measly 100/10, which
is about on-par for old 1960s-era high-rises with tenant-owner
associations (bostadsrättsföreningar?) filled with 1960s-era people
who look at a bid from a roguish ISP (then UPC, now Comhem) which any
child could see is tantamount to giving a single ISP the sole right to
supply broadband to tenants, at whichever rates and tariffs the ISP
chooses, for fifteen years (which in ICT is about eight million
years), and because there unfortunately were no children around, the
old people think that "ah, yes; this looks very computery indeed" and
go ahead with it.

Yeah, I'm slightly bitter. What gave me away? :-)