Is Brunei Mobile Data Really that Expensive?

I’ve heard complaints that DST, one of the Brunei mobile telcos, rip people off with regards to charging for data. Let’s see if that’s true.

So I compared Brunei’s cellular data from DST and Progresif Cellular to different telcos in 4 countries

• Singapore: M1, Singtel, Starhub
• Australia: Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, Vaya
• UK: EE/Orange, Vodafone
• USA: AT&T, T-Mobile

And I’ve come up with this spreadsheet.

On a cursory glance, it seems that

• UK has pretty good prices in all data tiers
• we have one of the worst excess data charges
• DST pricing isn’t that great when data usage is under 5GB
• with plans using more than 5GB of data (and especially > 10GB data), DST is actually very good so long as you stay within the quota amount

Hope to do more in-depth look soon