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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Let’s look at landmass - the US is equivalent in landmass to 16 Western OECD countries.

I haven’t seen roaming fees in the US for over 20 years. So you could travel 2500 miles and not once pay a roaming fee. Same with SMS - all messages have been included in my plan since at least 2005.

It’s hard to compare EU to US with something like roaming. Very few Americans travel outside the US regularly, so we’d need to look at something like hours outside home area per year, or something, to be any kind of useful - and there’s zero roaming within the US.

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