Despite recent price increases by Bouygues, Orange and SFR, the French are actually quite well off compared to users in the rest of the world. Indeed, France is in the TOP 10 countries where data is the cheapest.
Faced with galloping inflation in France, Bouygues, Orange and SFR have recently increased the prices of their respective offers. The thing had also been announced by Orange in December 2022 and some customers of the three operators have already noted this price increase on their monthly bill.
For its part, Free Mobile confirmed that there would be no tariff changes in 2023, despite “the inflationary context and the heavy investments” made by the company to develop its 5G infrastructure. If the French can legitimately complain about these increases, it must be taken into consideration that we are rather well off compared to users in the vast majority of countries in the world.
France is doing quite well on mobile data prices
In fact, the site Cable.co.uk has just published a new study dedicated to the price of data in the world in 2022. More specifically, the media focused on the cost of a gigabyte of mobile data in 233 different countries. To do this, the average price per country was calculated by analyzing no less than 5,000 offers.
Using this information, Cable.co.uk was able to produce an interactive map of the world. Simply hover over a country to see its ranking among the 233 countries measured, the cheapest and most expensive GB price in dollars, the number of packages analyzed to create the average and the day the measurements were taken. carried out.
A color code makes it easy to find your way around quickly, with the countries where the data is the cheapest in blue and, conversely, the countries where the mobile data is the most expensive in fuchsia. Thus and always according to the data collected by Cable.co, France is in the TOP 10 countries where data is the cheapest, in 7th position to be precise.
The first five places are occupied by:
- 1st: Israel ($0.04 for 1 GB of data)
- 2nd: Italy ($0.12)
- 3rd: San Marino ($0.14)
- 4th: Fiji ($0.15)
- 5th: India ($0.17)
Coming back to France, the average price per GB of mobile data is set at $0.23. The most expensive offer will allow you to obtain a GB in exchange for 49.96 dollars, while the least expensive formula charges the GB for only 8 cents. A total of 53 offers were analyzed by the British media.
