Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "7 Everyday Differences That SURPRISED Me in the US | Feli from Germany" video.

  1.  @joannesmith2484  A flat rate, and zero cost, is still a little different. I pay 0,10$ per phone minute and 0,10$ per text message on the phone. If you are not a heavy user this is much cheaper than having a $20 or $30plan. I think Germans are more aware of what things costs and they think more where to spent money for. So for $5 I could send 50 text messages (SMS), or I can buy a data volume of 500 MB, which is about 1 million whatsapp messages, if you don't send a lot of pictures.
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  2. Is fraud such a common thing in US ? Actually it's rather card payment, that replaced the checks. It's for the situation you have no cash with you and you want to pay. And card payment is not going via a third hand provider, it's done by the bank directly. This is much much cheaper, so credit cards became not that common. And even if credit cards are used today, they are not used for a 'credit', they are just used to pay.
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  3. For american auditory, it's conclusive to explain what they not know. I actually have never seen an iPhone closely.
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  4. And nobody cares .. what you proof by not knowing the reason.
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  5. Sure. It would also be difficult if you don't have electricity in your country to charge your phone. Some things are just assumed to be there.
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  6. Checks where abondened about 1995. Instead of asking someone for it's address, you ask for his account number, if you want to transfer money to them.
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  7.  @joannesmith2484  Physical networks, there are only 3 or 4, but there are a lot of resellers with different service levels, who sell a huge variety of plans. A real flat rate does not exist, it's more like packages of 1,2,3 GByte per month. And if you are at home, you have your stationary line and WLAN (which is really flat rate, price is by speed only). So at home the entire internet traffic, also on your mobile devices is for free, you don't need a mobile plan for that. The mobile data capacity is only needed if you are in the supermarket or a restaurant or on vacation. There you can think twice if you need the pic of your grandson immediately, or when you arrive at home. And whatsapp has an option, you receive only the information there is a picture for you, you get a few blury pixels. And you can decide if you want to see it right now (than' its mobile data) or at home, via WLAN. But text messages and phone calls from mobile devices, they are charged 'mobile' also if you are at home. That's why nobody is using it. The switching of provider for the same device, the cell phone, from long distance wireless, to short distance wireless (WLAN) is only possible for internet data. It's the same in US, maybe less people are aware of it.
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  8. And in this way, you have no $0 wireless plan. I pay about $5 for 500MB data, thats good for endless messaging, a view photos, maybe google maps. and it's 1$ extra for 100min phone calls. I think germans do more think where and how to spend their money, while american pay whatever they are asked for, not caring if they are using the service or not. If you have the choice of paying SMS or data, you choose data, cause this is more universal to use.
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  9. You have to advertise better. Nobody changes just because you drop names.
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  10. But it's also up to 20min/hour, in 3 blocks. That's legal adviced. So you have to get a drink, feed the cat, go to the toilet...
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  11. Wrong, Scammers always uses what the vast majority uses, never vice versa.
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