Dmitry Medvedev set the task: one megabit will cost no more than fifty rubles

In the article “ Medvedev 's Space Plans, ” which was published by Gazeta.Ru last Wednesday, they write in large print:

In the house of every Russian will hold 24 TV channels, and high-speed satellite Internet will cost no more than 50 rubles per megabit. (Sic! - Mithgol.) And this miracle will happen no later than 2015. At least, this is exactly the task that Dmitry Medvedev set at the meeting of the commission for the modernization of the economy. This is real, experts agree. In the presence of funding.

You can count (and on the Kuban.Ru forum already counted ) that if you pay 50 rubles for each megabit, then a megabyte will cost 400 rubles, and only millionaires will be able to download DVDs. (Perhaps the president knows something better than us about the rate of inflation by 2015 ;-)

Fortunately, consistently reading the text of the article, the first dumbfounded reader then understands (by comparison) that it is, fortunately, not about the price of a megabit, but about the price of using a relatively bright channel (which this megabit transmits every second) during whole month at least. Then the reader finally lies down from his heart - and he even begins to slowly believe that the government is not preparing us for absolutely absolute evil.

However, is this a newspaper bloop exactly far from the truth? Let's compare with the prices of the provider Tooway , which right now delivers bi-directional satellite Internet in Western Europe and covers a large part of Western Europe with:
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It turns out that in England, some households pay thirty pounds for 2.4 gigabytes per month. Since for a hundred rubles now they give about a couple of pounds , the price of half the volume of a DVD is equal to one and a half thousand rubles.

Expensive!