In Kyiv I have a pretty comfortable gigabit connection (not optical fiber, though I am thinking about switching to it) at 350 UAH (around 8 Euro) a month. The important to me part is that connection persists for 4-5 hours even during power cuts, which were quite frequent last summer.

I don't use mobile data often, so my experience with that will not be representative of large majority of Ukrainian users.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is that gigabit up and down? What would fibre cost? Just curious as I feel like I get a decent deal (in US terms).

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Should be both up and down, but I'm not uploading much so I can't attest to the accuracy of those claims. Fibre, I think, is comparable in cost (8-9 euro per month), with the added one-time cost of installing the whole thing. But also, fibre, from what I've heard, doesn't need external power supply at all, provided I can power my router with a powerbank or generator.

That said, when comparing costs, you also gotta compare the incomes - I earn about 1200 USD/1150 EUR a month after taxes (all paid in UAH), which is probably a lot lower than you'd get for an office or IT job in western countries.