Mobile Data Roaming Still Costs Too Much
I am heading to Barcelona on Feb. 15 for the Mobile World Congress, where operators from all over the world will talk about how great mobile broadband is, but I bet you they won't use it to surf the Internet while visiting the show, especially if chief financial officers have any say.
The reason is simple: surfing the Internet using broadband while abroad is really expensive. Surfing the Internet using mobile broadband in Spain would cost me 40 Swedish kronor (about US$5) per megabyte, and if I wanted to do the same in the U.S. it would set me back 120 Swedish kronor per megabyte, which is a ridiculous amount of money compared to the 199 Swedish kronor per month I pay for unlimited data.
So, for what I pay per month for mobile broadband access in Sweden, I would get the pleasure of downloading almost 5MB in Spain, and if I go to the U.S. that number would drop to below 2MB.
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