A bit more elaborate: how much does a monthly broadband internet subscription (aimed at the regular home-market, i.e. no special interest subscription formula, like students / old-age pensioners / ...) cost per Mbps (megabit/second) of download rate in your country, VAT included?

To top it off: over here (Belgium, western Europe), I guess the cheapest rate is XS4ALL's Rocket 4 formula: 5.61 EUR/Mbps/month (44.90 EUR for 8 Mbps).

5.61 EUR (@ Aug 20)
= 9.54 AUD
= 8.97 CAD
= 3.79 GBP
= 756.20 JPY
= 6.91 USD

Please convert your currency into one of the majors if necessary.

Curious to know what you people pay in the rest of the world :)

US$ 29, for 768k DSL.

I was told that you can get 45Mbps for $20/month in Tokyo.

I pay 44 EUR for 1024/320 in Barcelona, Spain

R$80 (~U$ 27)/month for 600/300kbps. No quota.

AUD$69.95 (USD$50.66, EUR$41.11, GBP$27.83, BRL$150.22, CAD$65.73, JPY$5528.54, NZD$75.3) for 256kbps/64kbps with a static IP and no download/upload limits. $10 cheaper for a dynamic IP, and cheaper still if you can stand download limits. Apparantly every broadband user in Australia is getting screwed.

640/256 for $40ish; 1.5/1.0 for $50ish both with the best damn newsgroups i've EVER seen (outsourced to supernews, and no monthly limit). no d/l quota, either. downside is i can't download fast enough at times...

Around 48 Euro/month for 512/128 kbps. This is the fastest broadband commonly available in Hungary (768 is available at a few places, but the price is almost twice as much), fortunately it has no download limit.

~20€ per month for 1024/256 kbps here (cable, dyn IP)

64e + 6e for the modem rent 5Mbps. This connection should be 10Mbit, but the building where I live in is a bit too far from main VDSL switch.

Thanks for the replies so far.

Just a quick remark, though. It'd be very interesting to know where these prices apply, in other words, to mention where you live. So to the few of you who haven't mentioned that, I'd appreciate it if you'd edit your post.

Also, it'd be nice if you could calculate the price as per Mbps of download speed, just to make comparing easier

Thanks again!

I've heard similar claims, about South Korea as well. Anybody from Japan or South Korea reading this?

It's probably true. I can easily find a similar service(47Mbps for 3200yen). I can also find several ISPs claim 100Mbps FTTH for 5000yen/month or so.

3000yen(US$27, €22) for 12Mbps ADSL here, BTW.

I'm paying 26.9 e/kk for fast enough fibre connection, including 3 static IP's with subdomains and UNIX shell service.
Some of local telephone company's ADSL prices:
512 k / 512 k 33.9 e/kk
1 M / 512 k 38.9 e/kk

Standard Telenet Internet in Belgium: 42 Euros.

10Mbps down/192kbps up.

Only bad thing are the quotas: 10G down and 1.5G up per 30 days

41.95 EUR to be more precise: the Telenet Internet Mono formula and its tariffs.
And BTW, Telenet's maximum downstream speed is officially 4 Mbps, although in practice this depends on the DOCSIS set of the cable modem, and averaging some 5 to 6 Mbps. So a fairer comparison would be 41.95 EUR/6 Mbps = 6.99 EUR/Mbps.

I'm lucky enough to get 10Mbps

I looked at the offer you qouted, and the 320k up + 20G quota looked very interesting. But then I saw you need a regular phone subscription, or there's an additional 14 Euros. So that would make it 59 Euros effectively here.

That's lucky indeed

True. ADSL's only interesting in Belgium if you already own and regularly use a fixed Belgacom phone line.

Otherwise, Telenet (cable) is the way to go, at least in Flanders (northern Belgium), because it's available just about anywhere, whereas in the more rural areas 8 Mbps ADSL is not.

BTW, there's also a 6.50 EUR/month ADSL compatible phone line formula (Belgacom Discovery Line), but outbound calls are actually at an even more expensive rate than mobile-to-fixed. Only advantage to this subscription type is the ability for others to call you at low fixed-line rates and for you to have ADSL enabled on it.

I'm in sweden and luckily my university provides me with cheap and fast internet access. Other people can get fiber cable connection from BBB if they're lucky and live in the right town. It's either 100Mbit and around 595 SEK per month (~65 EUR or 79 USD) or 10 Mbit for around 320 SEK. Quota at 300GB per month.

If you're in a place without this possibility, you can get various types of DSL with prices about what askoff mentioned above.

Here we pay about 40 canadian dollars for 4.1 megabits download / 800 kilobits upload. We have a monthly limit of 20gb download / 10gb upload.

$40.00 CAD / $30.59 USD / 25.10€ EUR ~ 4.1 megabits down (512.5 kilobytes)
$40.00 CAD / $30.59 USD / 25.10€ EUR ~ 800 kilobits up (100 kilobytes)

$9.76 CAD / $7.46 USD / 6.12€ EUR ~ 1 megabit download
$50.00 CAD / $38.24 USD / 31.36€ EUR ~ 1 megabit upload

8 canadian dollars ($6.12 USD) for one gigabyte over the limit.

Edit: added more currencies.

As always, being a brit, we are getting ripped off

750k no quota/no limit:

£24.99/month - GBP
€36.73/month - EUR
$44.71/month - USD

Hi, I on with Shaw Cable. It is $37.95 CAD or $29.18 USD for 2mbps down and 400kbps up. Which doesn't sound that bad. However, I have a 20GB/month download + upload limit; which is ridiculous. I regularly use 40-50GB/month. I constantly get harrassing email and telephone messages telling me to use less. Last month they cut me off for 1 week and threatening to charge more. But they didn't.
EDIT: Corrected speeds.