According to a Rewheel research Italy is among the countries in the world where monthly data traffic costs less, with the arrival of Iliad cost reduction of 70%
At several months after its launch the revolution brought by the new phone operator Iliad is starting to show its effects in Italy. Even those who have not chosen to switch to a SIM card with the French operator is benefiting from a general lowering of prices, especially with regard to the data package of the Internet.
To meet and face the competition of Iliad, which is presented in Italy with several offers very advantageous compared to the traditional ones on the Italian market, almost all operators already active have decided to lower prices, and often did so with their virtual operators, such as Vodafone with Ho.Mobile or TIM with Kena. In this way, even those who were not convinced by the Iliad offers had a much wider and cheaper choice than before for their monthly mobile plan. Iliad has mainly influenced to lower the costs of monthly data traffic rates. Until a few months ago there were many operators that offered unlimited minutes, but almost no one before Iliad offered 30-40 or 50 GB of Internet per month for less than 10 euros.
Italy among the least expensive countries for mobile rates
According to the study by the Finnish agency Rewheel, Italy is one of the cheapest countries in the world at the moment to activate a new offer for the SIM of your smartphone. Interestingly, since the landing of Iliad, the average cost for an Internet data package over 10GB per month has decreased by 70% between April and October 2018. Among the various European countries, only in France, where Iliad has already been operational for quite some time, and in Finland itself the Internet data package is cheaper than in Italy. The countries with the most expensive rates for a monthly package with unlimited minutes and more than 10GB of Internet? Korea, Canada and the United States. In particular in South Korea the increases are due to the approaching launch of 5G. The Asian country will be among the first in the world to launch, in the coming months, the 5G coverage throughout the nation and for this reason several operators have already started to offer packages with super-fast network connection but also more expensive.
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