Greeks pay hefty rates for gigabytes

Greek consumers pay the seventh highest charges in the world to buy a gigabyte of data to surf the internet on their phone, according to a survey conducted by British company Cable in 230 countries.

The nominal price of 1 GB in Greece reaches up to 28.93 euros, while the average rate around the world is 7.5 euros/GB. In other words, the charges in Greece are four times the global average. The most expensive country to buy data is Zimbabwe, with 1 GB setting users back 66 euros. The cheapest country in the world in that respect is India, where users pay an average rate of 0.22 euros/GB.

To gauge the average charge in Greece, Cable assessed 15 cell network packages through the rates mentioned in the providers' websites. The lowest rate among those packages was 2.08 euros/GB of data and the highest was 193.72 euro/GB.

For their part, the mobile service suppliers...