Talk:New Zealand/@comment-85.255.237.111-20190711123106

Kiwi here who has been living in the UK for 25 years. I come back here every 2-3 years for a few months to see family etc (and to escape UK nonsense i.e. BREXIT).

Every time I am amazed at how just how expensive mobile data is here. For 20 years it has been getting better and better overseas, but in NZ it just hasn’t moved. It is ridiculously expensive - absolutely ludicrously ridiculously expensive!!! It would be a joke if the Internet was not so important in our modern lives and those of us who rely on it for work.

In 2003 I was paying $50 for 3GB of mobile data…

My current UK Vodafone contract gives me 50GB data and unlimited txt/calls plus free access to NOW TV, which could have been Sky Mobile, or Spotify Premium, for £30 a month (which is about $60 NZD). Luckily, for me, I can use that data in NZ.

NZ has nothing that comes remotely even close. We are just getting ripped off so bad by Telco’s these days, it is just an absolute disgrace.