This may come as a shock to our Australian readers, who are so used to getting
ripped off, but who are we to argue with the UK's Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development? In a study of smartphone contracts across 12 countries, it found that Australia consistently offered the best value, whereas the US and Canada penalized low-usage customers and offered just average value to the rest. Admittedly, the analysis had to set some severe parameters in order to benchmark across so many different markets and pricing models, including focusing on two handsets (the 16GB
iPhone 4S and
Galaxy S II) and a single month of data (February 2012, which was before the
anti-subsidy trend began in the US). In any case, bear all that in mind as you read on for a summary of the report's main conclusions.
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Via: The Guardian
Source: OECD
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