Tan Kin Lian's Blog: Expensive Broadband Connection

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Broadband connection is expensive in Brussels. My hotel charges Euro 15 for 1 hour and Euro 25 for 1 day. Wow!

Loh Hon Chun said...: We should be glad we have Wireless@SG.

Cheers
Loh Hon Chun; September 26, 2007 11:05 PM
Khiat Han Hwee Adrian said...: Its common for hotels to charge high internet rates because they are charging tourist monies like you and me.

Their residential rates should be lower.; September 27, 2007 1:02 AM
Jessie said...: sometimes hotels charge ridiculously high prices. in British Virgin Islands, one hotel tried to charge 8$USD per 15 minutes. there was no per day charge.

in town, you could probably get it for slightly cheaper, maybe $15 per hour or something, i can't remember; September 27, 2007 8:20 AM
Anonymous said...: Wow! No wonder Europe is always playing catch up games with US in terms of internet usage and innovations. Sigh... the pricing of basic infra has huge implications on its adoption. If we look at mobile applications and usage, Japan leads the pack with Docomo. It is cheap and distributes 91% of its application revenue back to the application developers. In other places such as Singapore, most telcos take 50% of the revenue if you want to bill through them (eg. via sms). No incentive for mobile application developers to be creative, hence no applications developed, and a lack lustre mobile application market.; September 27, 2007 8:21 AM

Wednesday, September 26, 2007