Think of us as the less-developed-country equivalent of that venture capitalist you know whose assistant nonchalantly pays their $250 phone bills. This is implicit in that half the time we buy credits, we buy all the credits available in the rural store! For most others, it’s definitely luxury levels. We’re pretty aware that there are people for whom this is their entire salary. So much so that to buy credits, we go to different stores each time.
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We manage to get by on that (each!), tethering to our laptops, if we cut back on data, for the entirety of our digital professional lives.īut it’s still kind of embarrassing dropping $10 every week. In Tanzania it costs us about $5 for 10GB, using a weekly bundle. This is a guide to cutting down all those sneaky services that eat up your bandwidth without you knowing it, unnecessarily curtailing your fun.įor people on Western tourist budgets, data isn’t too expensive in most parts of the world (that have it). This isn’t a guide to an ascetic, monk-like lifestyle where you do just the bare minimum, too.
Whether you buy a SIM card or roam using Google Fi, T-Mobile or some other provider, or even if you’re using metered hotel data (which I hate! it’s so expensive), it pays to measure how much data you’re using and cut back on everything that’s not essential. In places we travel to in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, we spend more on data than many people spend on food.
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