• insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    Reminds me of old cell-phone service options. Free hours, rollover and prepay/pay-as-you-go/contractless etc.

    Not sure how pricing/value actually compares, but it does seem like if you want a phone now for emergencies you’re going to get fleeced (also required data package). Unless maybe you buy a flip-phone or something. A fiber provider in my area even still charges $40 for a land-line (no idea if it’s VoIP).

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        9 hours ago

        wtf is up with telcos in wherever are you from?

        Oh you know, they are given free reign because 🇺🇸

        Internet pricing/speed isn’t great either.

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          Not sure how pricing/value actually compares, but it does seem like if you want a phone now for emergencies you’re going to get fleeced (also required data package).

          What? You need data make calls now?

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          8 hours ago

          My country has some of the best internet in the world now that I think of it… just didn’t realize none of that was that common elsewere, here you can go to a corner store, as in they sell groceries, and buy a sim card for 1usd, then activate it, and put money on it with cash at that same grocery store, or pay fully online, not so long ago, you didn’t even needed an ID to activate those.