£307.20/mb Gprs

[Stu]

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.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Stu

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.
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Agree.
Especially because sometimes a provider with a lower price per megabyte can turn out to be a bad deal if the rounding is horrible. Especially for mobile application everything above 1k rounding is just a ripoff for the customers.
In germany the providers usually round to 100k now. Check your emails on the move 10 times a day and you use up 1MB of data per day. Effectively you maybe transmitted 25 or 50kbyte during this day...

Chris