£307.20/mb Gprs

Stu · 16-05-2008, 13:46

I've often thought that as this forum talks about prepaid data more and more, that we should come up with a uniform unit of measure. Some carriers charge by the kilobyte, some by the megabyte, and United Mobile uses some fraction of that (e.g. 300 kilobyte). This makes it harder to compare.

I'd like to see something like:

Price Per Megabyte: $6
Method of Rounding: Kilobyte
Base Currency: Russian Ruble

I don't care whether you use Dollars or Euros and I know that it can be imprecise because of currency fluctuations, but you look at list where carrier a charges X euros for every 300 kilobytes; carrier b charges Y dollars for every 1 megabyte; and carrier Z charges Z dinars for every kilobyte. Until you do fifteen minutes of math, you don't have a clue who is cheaper.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	16-05-2008, 13:46 I've often thought that as this forum talks about prepaid data more and more, that we should come up with a uniform unit of measure. Some carriers charge by the kilobyte, some by the megabyte, and United Mobile uses some fraction of that (e.g. 300 kilobyte). This makes it harder to compare. I'd like to see something like: Price Per Megabyte: $6 Method of Rounding: Kilobyte Base Currency: Russian Ruble I don't care whether you use Dollars or Euros and I know that it can be imprecise because of currency fluctuations, but you look at list where carrier a charges X euros for every 300 kilobytes; carrier b charges Y dollars for every 1 megabyte; and carrier Z charges Z dinars for every kilobyte. Until you do fifteen minutes of math, you don't have a clue who is cheaper.