It is high time that the Spanish people and the rest of us that live in Spain get together and complain about the prices of some things here. In particular I am thinking about the high cost of internet and mobile phone tariffs. Have to get totally jealous of the services and the prices that the people in the UK are getting. I have seen where they are paying only ten pounds or maybe 12 pounds to get 20MB download speeds.
Here in Spain the stupid thing is that the slower the internet speed the more you pay….. No honestly it is true. Here I can only get 1mb and it is more expensive than the price that I could get 6MB for if I was living in an area that had that speed available.
I don’t know what it is that make the Spanish not complain about the high cost of the internet because they are not shy with complaining about other things. I have seen that when I have been working in the camping site
Today I am looking at the prices of the mobile phone plans, and they all seem to make it as complicated as possible. Most have this thing where you pay a certain amount per month and get x number of calls or x number of minutes. Then there is the different prices per minute of the calls depending on where you are calling. What is confusing me most is whether I will be able to get my iPhone unlocked so I can use it on another network. I really don’t like Telefonica and I would have stayed with Vodafone except for the fact that the iPhone was only possible with Movistar/Telfonica
Does anyone out there have any experience of getting a phone unlocked at the end of a contract. It would be great to be able to continue using it and preferably without a contract. That way I will be able to think about the possibility of the next version of the iPhone which may be available in June or July this year.
For me another consideration would be the idea of just having a cheap old phone because I don’t make many phone calls and then get an iPad. That would be nice. I would get the iPad without the 3G and then get a MiFi device that will give me a wifi bubble wherever I am. The deal that Orange have with one of those now is €19 per month an with a 1GB limit per month. That is much better than the €15 per month with Telfonica that only gives 200mb per month. How bad is that then?