sbiddle:

NonprayingMantis: NZ mobile broadband isn't really expensive by global standards.

But Finnish mobile broadband is just ridiculously cheap.

Which also raises the issue that many people forget about - the destination of the traffic. Finland is a very multilingual country because the small population means not everything is translated so people need to have a good understanding of other languages. I've been there a few times now and find most people to speak better English than most NZers.

If you look at somewhere like Japan as a comparison with such a small % of people understanding anything apart from Japanese a significant % of their internet traffic never leaves their shores.