Right? Ignoring the scandal this man’s responsible for - fuck roaming charges. Were these kids watching football from low Earth orbit? That’s the only way a few gigabytes of data should cost thousands of pounds. If they were vacationing in a merely terrestrial nation, I guaranfuckingtee the locals around them were paying orders of magnitude less for identical network service.
It is the 21st century. Everyone has a cell phone. Everywhere has cell phone service. Nobody should be charged as though the technology works by lighting gold on fire. Streaming video cannot be priced higher than tickets to fly out and see the game in person.
I look forward to people thinking 2x is excessive, because they’re unaware it used to be comedic. This has already happened with landlines. Long-distance numbers were once the difference between a dial-up internet session being $5 versus $1500.
Right? Ignoring the scandal this man’s responsible for - fuck roaming charges. Were these kids watching football from low Earth orbit? That’s the only way a few gigabytes of data should cost thousands of pounds. If they were vacationing in a merely terrestrial nation, I guaranfuckingtee the locals around them were paying orders of magnitude less for identical network service.
It is the 21st century. Everyone has a cell phone. Everywhere has cell phone service. Nobody should be charged as though the technology works by lighting gold on fire. Streaming video cannot be priced higher than tickets to fly out and see the game in person.
The absolute most anyone should be charged is 2x - normal data plan with the home operator + equivalent plan price for roaming country
Edit: I’m being generous to them by assuming not all operators will have mutual agreements in all countries
I look forward to people thinking 2x is excessive, because they’re unaware it used to be comedic. This has already happened with landlines. Long-distance numbers were once the difference between a dial-up internet session being $5 versus $1500.