[DeTomaso] NPC - was Lojack, now Swedish cell phones

[Will Demelo]

My bill is usually ~$200/mth
Will

"""Her bill last month, including all calls, were
about $10."""

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - was Lojack, now Swedish cell phones


> 2010-10-21 21:45, Larry Finch skrev:
>>
>>
>>
>>   Tomas wrote:
>>
>> I have a plan that cost about
>> $2.50/month, which comes with 3000 free SMS/text messages/month, and the
>> GPRS data amounts of about 5¢ per month, for a few 100kbyte.
>>
>> HUH? Can you really get a monthly cell phone plan for $2.50 a MONTH in 
>> Sweden?
>
> Yes, it is a student plan, took some courses in nuclear physics last
> year ;-) But even my wifes plan is about $5/month, plus a few ¢ per
> minute. 3000 free SMS:es. Her bill last month, including all calls, were
> about $10.
>
>>
>> Just a basic, bare bones plan around here is easily $40 monthly, with no 
>> texts or data.
>
> I know. My daughter is now in San Luis Obispo, CA, and she got her phone
> bill, and it was about $100. That is also one of those $2.50 plans when
> she's back in Sweden.
>
> She's bought a cash card US phone to use when she calls people in the
> US, but she just had a nightmare experience trying to refill the card at
> Best Buy, she now call them Worst Buy :-)
>
>>
>> Tell us more about Swedish cell phone systems and costs.
>
> I believe much of modern cell phone systems have been developed in
> Sweden, Ericsson is a huge contributor, and we have had fierce
> competition, which has driven the prices down.
>
> One thing that is different is that you never pay to receive a call, it
> is always the caller that pays, unless you are out of the country, in
> which case you get to pay for the call from Sweden to whatever country
> you are in.
>
> We also have different prefixes for the cell phones, you will
> immediately see that it is a cell phone you're calling.
>
> I also have a G3 USB modem, with a cash card, that I use when/if my DSL
> line is down, or I'm at the folks, and I pay $2.50 a day, for up to
> 6Mbps, with a cap of 0.5GByte. A week, and 2G is about $12, and a month,
> and 5G is about $35.
>
>>
>> Larry
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
>>
>>
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