Text messaging turns 25

[HEXUS]

Meanwhile monthly average mobile data usage in the EU hits 2.4GB.

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[tag75]

Wow I feel old ,when I was a kid I had to run to the phone box to call my mates .

[peterb]

Phone box? Phone box? - you had it lucky lad, when I was a lad, we were lucky to get a piece of wet string and two tin can!

(With apologies to Monty Python, although the original sketc was old than that https://youtu.be/VAdlkunflRs

[Tabbykatze]

Jesus Christ Finland, dat average monthly data xD

[Saracen]

25? I'm sure I haven't done that many?? Maybe 15.

[aniilv]

Jesus Christ Finland, dat average monthly data xD

makes sense since it's their legal rights to have internet connection at home of at least 100mbps and a request to isp cannot be denied even if you live in middle of nowhere

also, their usual home connection is 1 - 2 gbps for much less a month than in uk

see what happens when government acts in interest of people, not openreach/bt

[peterb]

makes sense since it's their legal rights to have internet connection at home of at least 100mbps and a request to isp cannot be denied even if you live in middle of nowhere

also, their usual home connection is 1 - 2 gbps for much less a month than in uk

see what happens when government acts in interest of people, not openreach/bt

The data usage refers to mobile data, not home broadband. However, I agree that the costs and speed in Finland are good, but then if I was paying income Tax at 50%, I might start to think it expensive!

[Xlucine]

However, the UK's average is diluted by a large number of installed M2M SIM cards (average 291MB data usage per month) otherwise our average consumption would be 2.8GB.

Another thing we can blame on smart meters!