Talk:Spain/@comment-90.174.0.100-20141203143616/@comment-212.23.31.48-20141231164224

Spain is not a "third world", the internet providers have developed a clear monopoly of the market and agreed to give very little to their customers in Spain. Movistar is O2 in the UK, and their prices have NO comparison, UK being competitive, Spain prices being outrageously high.

Is this the fault of the Spanish citiens or the fault of the Spanish government? It is clearly the fault of the moviles and internet supplier companyies that operate in Spain. A few years ago, Movistar (which is ultimately Telefonica) was the only telefone and mobile supplier. Then the government tried to "democratice" the market and allowed other mobile and internet suppliers to operate in Spain, including foreigner companies. The prices went down a lot and there was a realistic and affordable mobile and data ladscape in Spain. Unfortunately it lasted only a coupe of year. It has since then been like the old monopoly days, only that there is lots of mobile and data supplier now, however still a monopoly, they all agree not to low prices. I still cannot beleive why the people of Spain dont raise against this. I am a Spanish born and bread but I work and live in the UK in London, and can tell you that before I moved to London, I saw it as normal to pay £30 a month just to get 2GB of internet at home. Now when I go back to visit family and friends, I see it as an utter slap on the face of every Spanish citizen.

So to me, it is ultimately the fault of the people of Spain for not put pressure in the Government and the mobile companies to lower their prices. Internet is not a luxury item anymore. Everybody, schools, the unemployed, the shops, the mother and fathers of the new generation of citizens needs to use the internet.

Unfortunately, it happens the same with even a more basic necesity: employment and workers rights in Spain have decreased now to a level of third world countries.

There is a vicious circle that the Spanish Givernment needs to address. It looks as if the Government in Spain (no matter if right or left or middle parties) is trying to demorilised the whole country and keep them uner their thimb by offering no alternative but terrible employment rights laws and increasingly taking away workers benefits and increasing employers rights. It is become a disguised capitalist dictatorship. It is a third world war where the weapons are making the 90% of the population poor and dependant on the rich.

People of Spain, WAKE UP AND CHANGE YOUR COUNTRY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!!!