Kazakhstan DSL: $3,355 Per Month

Whew, I am never, ever, EVER complaining about internet price again. Ars Technica reports that the land of Kazakhstan, made famous with the help of Borat, has DSL internet available for $3,355 per month. Yes, for the price of a nice BMW in the US, you can get DSL internet for one year in Kazakhstan. Bear in mind also that the average monthly wage is $399 there as well, which makes the number all the more extreme.

Most users (and only four percent of the country even has access) hook up through state-owned Kazakhtelecom, a company not concerned with competitive pricing for its services. An unlimited dial-up plan costs about €82 ($111) in a country where the average monthly wage is €292 ($399). As for DSL, an unlimited 1.5Mbps connection costs €2,458 ($3,355) a month, and doesn’t even included the required ADSL modem. Want a 6Mbps cable connection? It’ll cost you, to the tune of €16,144 ($22,032) a month. As the OSCE report drily notes, this is more than a thousand times the price of such a connection in Western Europe.?

Source: Ars Technica