• €2.23 the average cost, per megabyte, of roaming data charges throughout Europe — $3.22 a meg!
• €0.90 the price cap currently being proposed, also per meg, for data usage — starting in July 2012
• €0.50 the price cap suggested after by 2014 … which is way lower only in context source

• » To put this in perspective: If you hop on your iPhone and reload this page roughly 80 times, that’s about a megabyte. If you hop on Pandora and listen to half of a two-minute Ramones song, that’s about a megabyte. When AT&T implemented its capped data plan a year ago, many people were upset about the 2 gig data cap for $25 dollars. Doing the math, that plan is roughly 82 megabytes per dollar. If the half-Euro-per-megabyte roaming price cuts in Europe take hold, those 82 megabytes would cost around $59 U.S. dollars, considering current exchange rates. Now multiply that by 25. Exactly our point.

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