Mobile charges way too expensive in US

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PERHAPS everything's bigger in America, as the old saw goes, but when it comes to mobile phone calls and data usage, US consumers are certainly paying big, sometimes nearly as 20 times as much as Europeans.

If you live in France, you can pay as little as 20 euros (S$30.60) per month for a monthly package featuring 50 gigabytes of data, unlimited domestic and international calls to over 100 countries and unlimited text messages.

In the United States, that much data could cost you US$390 per month from one national operator.

While the above comparison may be the extreme, it dovetails with an Internati…