Post #1768102
2025-12-30 09:16 UTC
Replies (3)
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@sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 2025-12-30 11:59
cell (mobile) service is just way, way more expensive in the states. no justifiable reason, just cause they can and all do. I pay €8 monthly for unlimited everything except international calls (its my work phone) and I think €20 for the other one. I was just in the US for christmas and wanted data etc but my phone doesnt support eSim and the cheapest sim only plan was at&t and it was $40, it had a data cap of some kind and required a $15 activation fee. I used a lot of wifi during this trip. my wife's phone can do eSim so she had unlimited everything for €25 or something for the ten days I believe, with Holafly. In a past life I worked at the biggest telecoms company in the states and we'd be encouraged to sell people $89.99 a month and that still had a limit to "minutes". We also learned that the towers emit radiation 24 hours a day, and modulating said radiation costs the company essentially nothing at all, so the "minutes" thing is just pure profit
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@Pika@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-30 19:27
Not sure about the other guy but, In the US the sim itself is usually dirt cheap (like less than a 1$) but it's difficult to just buy the *sim* unless you buy it directly through the carrier. I'm assuming if the price is as high as 60$ price it's including their monthly plan, I know a few carriers here offer BYOD kits for 50-60$ which include the sim, but those same carriers usually will offer a 3-5$ multi sim kit (a kit with a bunch of different sim card sizes) that is usually only obtainable via shipping so most go for the BYOD kit instead of waiting.
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@exu@feditown.com 2025-12-31 09:49
My provider (Wingo, Switzerland) wants 40 CHF (~50 USD, I remembered wrong) for a replacement SIM. Not sure about new signups