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Apple Will Solve the Slow mobile.me Issue... by Starving non-US Subscribers!

by linathael . Original by Lionel - 16/06/2008 11:32:20 CEST
Several thousand .Mac users in Europe have been struggling over the last year with slow data transfer speed, while in EU lost users have access to broadband internet (ranging from 5 to 24 Mbit/s). Our German friends from FSKLOG, reports how Apple is aiming to potentially solve this issue. If one compares the description of mobile.me in USA USA and in UK, or from any EU Apple Stores, one can easily notice that the allowed traffic per month will be limited to 100 GB in EU while US subscribers will be granted 200 GB. This is a bit weird when one considers that in USA access to high-speed internet is rather limited when compared to EU...
Last but not least, mobile.me will be priced 79 € vs. 99 USD, again a major difference when considering the exchange rate with USD... So it seems that Apple decided to solve the data speed transfer of .Mac and future mobile.me accounts in EU by limiting the amount of data to be transferred, reducing the bandwidth with USA... Is Europe again paying the aggressive pricing policy of Apple service and hardware in USA? Why is Apple not simply installing a mobile.me server center in EU to offer a much better service to local subscribers?
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