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Post by Old Shendemiar on Apr 2, 2004 23:29:38 GMT
I pay 49€ per month for 512/512 ADSL. I also have free modem dialups, one commercial and one via university. But for those i need to pay phone-bills if i use them (and 18€ mothly fee for the phone line anyway, and after the local phone-company changed to public company beeing a association before, the rates have risen more than 10 times in last 9 years...)
We also have shared ADSL (256/256) at this building, that would be 36€, but thats real crap, i could get private ADSL (256/256) for the same price!
Those i consider Expensive, but on the other hand, i have a Free GSM, no mothly payment, no opening fees, no obligations, (free stuff when opening it) and free calls to the same operator and 0.04 € / min to others.
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Post by Perun on Apr 3, 2004 18:06:49 GMT
Hrmph! You call that expensive? I pay from 50 euros to 75 euros for a stinking 56k modem connection. About 100 kunas (12 euros) for nothing (monthly tax, I call it) and everything else for the traffic. And they call it affordable... I had 2Mb link in my former location (work), then 1Mb, then 512kb, and we were all happy even then. Now we have only 56k and ISDN modems. Life sucks! ADSL was extremely expensive (and I mean extremely!), now is somewhat less expensive, but still too much. And of course, you pay for traffic (every 512 MB), which can very quickly become again extremely expensive, since DT (deutsche telekom, now major owner of HT, croatian telecom) counts traffic for both directions, including browsing and everything... And what's more, I wanted to pay to be skinned alive, but then they told me I cannot have ADSL, because PBX I'm attached to cannot support ADSL! Can you believe that?! But that's the beauty of non-competition. DT is the only owner of fixed lines in Croatia. Oh, did I mention that other owner of HT is our government? So, you get the picture... Because all of that, I didn't vote. P.S. And about our administrators: admin in my... well... firm, informed me via email that he changed my email password... So I chose not to use it... ;D
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Post by Ringthane on Apr 3, 2004 21:06:17 GMT
37.50 for cable...
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Post by Natmus on Apr 3, 2004 21:10:37 GMT
I pay in real money, not Euro-trash, and I refuse to convert the amount, but I pay 295 DKK per month. You do the math
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Post by Old Shendemiar on Apr 3, 2004 21:28:33 GMT
Hrmph! You call that expensive? I pay from 50 euros to 75 euros for a stinking 56k modem connection. About 100 kunas (12 euros) for nothing (monthly tax, I call it) and everything else for the traffic. And they call it affordable... I had 2Mb link in my former location (work), then 1Mb, then 512kb, and we were all happy even then. Now we have only 56k and ISDN modems. Life sucks! ADSL was extremely expensive (and I mean extremely!), now is somewhat less expensive, but still too much. And of course, you pay for traffic (every 512 MB), which can very quickly become again extremely expensive, since DT (deutsche telekom, now major owner of HT, croatian telecom) counts traffic for both directions, including browsing and everything... And what's more, I wanted to pay to be skinned alive, but then they told me I cannot have ADSL, because PBX I'm attached to cannot support ADSL! Can you believe that?! But that's the beauty of non-competition. DT is the only owner of fixed lines in Croatia. Oh, did I mention that other owner of HT is our government? So, you get the picture... Because all of that, I didn't vote. P.S. And about our administrators: admin in my... well... firm, informed me via email that he changed my email password... So I chose not to use it... ;D Thats f***ing HORRIBLE! No wonder you talk about using your beretta so often ;D And i thought Finland was the most expensive country in these matters. I guess it would be cheaper for you to draw your own cable from abroad. Im shocked! They're bastards! GRRRRR. It's a good example of boneheaded goverments... We had a good example of that back in 90's. Our old national telecom company (owned still by the state) had to face competition (due to lawchanges that allowed local companies to expand nationwide) and desperately tried to make good profits. So a HUGE option-program for leaders was established to lure good staff. Some new staff eventually came in, and hoping to get the value of stock to rise (that's when their Options would pay them personally HUGE profits) they made very courageous (read Extremely expensive) UMTS purchases all over Europe (and some elsewhere too). Well UMTS isnt operating not even today even here in Finland, and everything they inteded to pay them with went down in the economic slump at late 90's In a nutshell: Company established and maintained with our taxmoney, paid 100's millions Euros allover Europe to other goverments auctioning UMTS licences. (the price also included the obligation to build 4th generation networks also) Then the company crashed, and swedish Telia bought it almost free, fired half of the employees and now creams from free infrastructure. All this because somebody thinked that a HUGE option program in a stateowned company is a good idea.
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Post by ladyhawke on Apr 6, 2004 15:46:05 GMT
Hmm... Not sure how this converts but I pay $9.95 (US dollars) per month for my 56K line.
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Post by Old Shendemiar on Apr 6, 2004 16:51:58 GMT
I pay in real money, not Euro-trash, and I refuse to convert the amount, but I pay 295 DKK per month. You do the math if i remember correctly 7 Dkk ~ 1 Eur, so 295 would be 42€
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Post by sparrowhawk on Apr 7, 2004 7:43:35 GMT
I pay nothing for either of my 56K dial-up accounts, other than the phone call itself, which works out at about 1p a minute (~0.6 €) in the evening or w/e. However I pay an optional £30/year subscription to UKLinux for more flexible access to the live MU site (ie I can dial in from any ISP, not just them. So when uploading a whole new version I can do it from, ahem, work in about 1 minute) My local home telephone exchange has *just* hit the magic 500 registrations of interest, so BT must now set a date for it be updated to digital so that we can have broadband at last. Drool Anyone suggest a good *reliable* broadband package in the UK where the software does not take over your PC? (running WinXP, but would like to be able to use both OS/2 and Linux boxes too - shouldn;t be a problem, should it?)
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