Iran the numbers – and Persian internet is the cheapest in the world Tired of continual price hikes on your broadband deal? Then why not move to Iran? According to a study released today, it has the cheapest broadband. The survey conducted by cable.co.uk and BDRC Continental ranked 196 countries on their monthly prices for a broadband connection, using 3,351 consumer packages tracked over eight …
It could be worse. Much worse...
"will", not "could".
You would have thought after the Blair/Brown years, the Con/Lib Coalition, and that lightweight Cameron, with opposition full of morons like Milliband, and Fidel Corbyn, that we'd finally bottomed out on the shallowness and stupidity of politicians, and that having defined that absolute zero of talent, things would have to improve, or at least get no worse. However, the gormless Theresa May continues to leave no stone unturned in her efforts to screw everything up, and is ably assisted by a cabinet of the most appalling duffers, fools and lightweights, proving that . It ***will*** get worse.
At the moment the intellectual pygmies of Westminster are trailing through the newspapers the idea of paying the EU €40bn for the privilege of the Germans being able to sell their cars to us. In the case of the current government, I've never seen such a collection of spineless, wretched, disorganised, out-of-touch clowns in my life (admittedly there is a mirror image of those attributes on the Opposition benches).
@ Ledswinger: You have clearly forgotten Einstein's Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Keep it in mind and everything makes sense.
In the meantime I would avoid any media access tomorrow; it's budget day, and I have no great faith in the present incumbent.
"At the moment the intellectual pygmies of Westminster are trailing through the newspapers the idea of paying the EU €40bn for the privilege of the Germans being able to sell their cars to us."
I thought it was the other way round. If not all those car workers in Sunderland, Derby and Swindon are going to have a nasty shock when they found out what they actually voted for.
Ledswinger, I am sure you have a point in there, but why buy German cars, they won't deny selling to you, why not buy domestic British cars, And there are French, Italian even Swedish and Spanish to choose from too, and why not Go Global as the lady has suggested, into the big wide world. India, for instance, have some nice brands and China is soon worth considering too. And lets not forget the USA.
But to come to the point, Big Mac was mentioned and suddenly it has all become clear to me. I need a better deal, all I actually want is the bread and the meat, (and they can keep the decorations) and as I eat in the car, piss in the parking lot (only if pressed) why, oh why, should I pay for those fucking awful buildings and unelected accountants. It's so blatantly obvious they need me more than I need them, And now, when I think about it, and now that I have payed into that organization for many many years they actually owe me a lot. Perhaps not the kitchen sink, modest as I am, but a few pissoirs at least.
It's amazing how much one can learn from reading English these days. I will keep you updated.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to make any adjustment for purchasing parity so the list is completely pointless - except as a cheap PR exercise to get their name mentioned.
Why do you think it's critical for PPP to be implemented? It's not measuring affordability, it's measuring cost.
It's very interesting that Russia (which has a tightly controlled economy and highly -cough- stable politics) is almost twice as expensive as Ukraine (which is a shambles)...
It's very interesting that Russia (which has a tightly controlled economy and highly -cough- stable politics) is almost twice as expensive as Ukraine (which is a shambles)...
Russia's per-capita GDP is almost exactly double Ukraine's. So I guess that's probably the answer.
Given that they're both at the "really, really cheap" end of the spectrum (the difference being that Russia is merely "ridiculously cheap", whereas Ukraine is "asymptotically approaching absolute zero") - I would guess that the price is basically set by the government, and it's based on what they think their median lower-middle-class citizen is willing to pay for their propaganda.
The price is not set by the government in either country.
You sure about that? The governments don't set targets or quotas for ISPs, or subsidise their infrastructure, or grant (or control) local monopolies?
"Setting the price" doesn't have to mean explicitly specifying what it must be. But governments generally have a huge influence over the economics of ISP operations.
I once read an interview with a senior marketing person at Ann Summers. She said that they sell a *lot* of their stuff in the various countries in the Arabian peninsula - her words were something like, "In public they wear all that stuff but underneath it all they wear the sexiest underwear in the world."
I'd like to know what their definition of "broadband" is, and what their methodology was for determining its price. Did they look at ads? Ask providers? Ask consumers, or consumer advocacy groups? Ask governments?
I can imagine that each of these approaches could yield quite different results...
@AGD:
The price listed for Canada seems a tad *low* - if it were based on average prices. Although I'm paying a tad less than the listed average. I rather suspect that this list may have been subject to the "18 months on this bargain price" sales pitches that are used around this neck of the woods.
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