>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24528383
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>>"Home broadband in the US costs far more than elsewhere. At high speeds, it costs nearly three times as much as in the UK and France, and more than five times as much as in South Korea."
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>>Sounds, on the face of it, that you're being ripped off......
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>We know we're being ripped off. I don't know that there are any good alternatives to cable and satellite, though. Victor or someone will probably jump in and say there are. What I mean is the ability to watch dozens or hundreds of TV channels live.

Hard to make direct comparisons. I'm paying about $30/month for a simple ADSL connection - unlimited downloads @ 16Mb (but I'm so far out in the sticks I only manage 8Gb) + unlimited UK landline calls. But there are better deals out there than that........