• Tim@lemmy.snowgoons.ro
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    7 hours ago

    1Gb/s symmetrical fibre 9eur/month here in Romania… And happy to say it’s rock solid/advertised speed.

    Alas, Digi’s 10Gb/s product seems to be mostly vapourware (the installer asked if I wanted it - for an extra eur/month IIRC - but any mention has disappeared from the website.) That said, I said no anyway because the thought of upgrading all my equipment to actually do anything with it doesn’t make me at all happy…

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      7 hours ago

      Our economy is a bit different, no offense, and that pricing seems fair to me :)

      I can download whatever I need in <5 minutes and that’s totally sufficient for me.

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        6 hours ago

        Of course; that’s why PPP is the only sensible way to compare economies when you’re discussing individual experience.

        There are much more interesting reasons than “ugh, me big rich western man, proud overpay not europoor” why Romanian internet is cheaper than western though; after all, GDP PP PPP in Romania is 60% of Denmark or half of Switzerland (and only a shade off the EU average these days), but fibre internet is between one fifth and one eighth of the price apparently. Particularly surprising when you consider that Denmark must be the easiest country to wire up in the world (very small and geographically unremarkable.) I would think a curious mind would want to know why…