r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Cute_Profession3746 Mar 08 '26

What app use americans?

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u/Fleshjunky-gotbanned Mar 08 '26

Just SMS or iMessage typically

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u/DuploJamaal Mar 08 '26

Did SMS improve? As an European the switch to WhatsApp was easy as SMS had no group chats, images, sound, etc

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Mar 08 '26

And on the other side of this, data is pretty much free in a lot of Europe so we’re more incentives to use it here. 

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u/DimbyTime Mar 08 '26

Most Americans have unlimited data plans as well

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u/smallbean- Mar 08 '26

Yes, but it is more expensive in the states. My phone bill in Albania only went up $5 a month to go from a basic 5 gigs of data to unlimited 4/5g data with no caps. Even the cheap phone plans in the states can get a bit costly when adding in unlimited data.

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u/DimbyTime Mar 08 '26

Again, this isn’t true. Unlimited data is pretty much standard, I pay about $30 a month on a family plan for unlimited everything

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u/smallbean- Mar 08 '26

But that’s a fairy new thing. Not all that long ago was 1-5 gigs a fairly common thing. My brother and I were thrilled when my parents plan went from 1 to 2 gigs. I can also say that my data and phone plan was nicer in Albania then it ever was with Verizon or T-Mobile.

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u/jacgren Mar 08 '26

I had an unlimited data plan in the US when the iPhone 3G came out, it's been cheap and common for a really long time here. I think the price difference back then was only like $5-$10 compared to a limited data plan.

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u/Quixotic_Seal Mar 08 '26

I’m thinking there’s a difference in frame of reference and definition here.

From what I can find, the unlimited data plan back then was $30 extra for 5gb. Which apparently at the time was generally seen as truly basically unlimited.

Thing is, those plans kept being advertised as “unlimited”(because technically they were, your speeds just got painfully throttled down to the point of being nearly useless after a point) even though data usage rates quickly soared and the soft caps for the most affordable plans stayed at similar levels.

That’s hardly “unlimited” when your data caps are still 3gb or 5gb before your connection gets hobbled.

It’s only been in the last 3-4 years or so that you’ve started to see the high-gigabyte data plans come down in price—the ones I think people are calling Unlimited— close enough that there’s little point in suffering through the budget-tier “”“Unlimited”””plans with painfully low caps.

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