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Originally Posted by xristy
Here in Nepal I am submitting via EDGE service which is pretty decent at about 128Kbps but costs around $0.08US/MB which starts getting expensive if you visit many modern websites and is outrageous if you want to download an audiobook or an OS update (Mac OS X 10.5.1 is 110MB = $8US to update the OS).
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But that's a perfect example of what I was saying. There are relatively few places in the world more remote than Nepal, and yet you have EDGE - ie GSM technology. At 8c/MB that would be 3 or 4c for the typical eBook, which is peanuts by anyone's standards.