Talk:Spain/@comment-90.174.2.4-20150102205513/@comment-24682153-20150102212306

Please stop writing this nonsense: There is no law in the EU making small internet packages illegal! The average package for smarpthone users is still 500MB or 1GB. And: You can't compare contract with prepaid. I tell you, I have edited all EU countries and Spain is in the middle of prices more or less for prepaid. Have you checked EU-member Cyprus for instance?

A good way to compare prices is to take one multi-national operator like Lycamobile and see what it charges for 1GB in every country in Euro: Spain 7.50 or 3.75 in Plan ahorro, Germany 12.90, Belgium 15, France 8, Portugal 5, Austria 4.90, Italy 7, UK 9.50 (in EUR). Still, I can't see that Spain is particulary expensive.

What makes mobile services expensive is that the kids need to have the newest device subsidized. These, they get from the network operators like Movistar. You know their rates, but they have the iPhone "for free". What they don't realize: It's like a bank, they pay like a loan with inflated rates locked in 2 years contracts. Only 20% of all customers in Spain are on MVNOs, but they are mostly cheaper than Movistar, Vodafone, Orange or Yoigo - problem is, MVNOs want you to bring your own device as they don't co-finance yours.