Upgraded my cellphone plan. The extra €3 will get me 5GB data a month on top the the old 5GB limit, and 5G. Turns out the vaccine & booster weren’t enough to get those speeds!
@mjdescy Right?? Saving my life was a great selling point, I'll give them that, but the added speed was the thing that really made me go for it... 🤣
@JMaxB So true! Turns out it's rather inexpensive to have 5G in the end, but when will I trust another sales pitch?? It has been destroyed.
@maique 😂 You think that’s a lot, you should see our cellphone costs in Canada, they’re extortionate.
@pimoore I know, I know. We talked about this before. The €3 are the upgrade. At the moment I’m paying €25 a month for 10GB data, an extra 10GB for chat apps, and 10GB for social media apps. All 5G where available. And 500 mins/SMS, but I don’t use them at all. Maybe 20/30 a month. Not too much.
As we spend a LOT of time home I don’t even need that much, but wanted to have 5G, and that’s the cheapest plan available with it.
@maique Nice, that’s a good plan! How do you find your 5G speeds, as I’ve still read they leave a lot to be desired in many places?
@pimoore At home, where I tested, they were nice.
It’s not available everywhere yet, mostly downtown on bigger cities. They’re expanding coverage as we speak.
@maique That’s impressive for a cellular connection, especially as your upload speed is 10x faster than mine and I have broadband.
@pimoore That’s not great, and below what I have on my broadband. I’d go crazy with those speeds when uploading photos to send to clients!
@maique Tell me about it. I’m glad I don’t create YouTube content or something heavy as it would be completely unfeasible. What pisses me off is my ISP says it’s an infrastructure issue, which is horse pucky as their business customers have access to un-throttled upload speeds.