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comments →    *In light of your revelations, let me rephrase...
Telecom coverage is a service, mobile phones are products.
Products are bound to price similarly across countries. Services
are priced as per cost of living.  Basically I'm saying you're
not comparing like with like either.  If you earn $150k in 2
years (what a friend in the US earns), you pay 2.18% of your
earnings in phone bills.  If you earn INR 960k in 2 years (not
bad either), you pay 24k + 30k(device), 54k for 2 years. That's
5.625% of your earnings.  I've assumed INR 480k = $75k a year
for similar living, but then again, who knows if that's right.
Besides, you get 4G too. We're on HSDPA.  [–]blorgSony Xperia Z
Ultra 0 points1 point  (0 children)   I realise the cost of
living is lower in India and that service 'should' be cheaper,
although this is far from a universal (short haul flights around
the region, for example, are cheaper in Europe.)  I live in
Cambodia at the mome