ADSL is so expensive.

Here in my country, Spain, broadband internet connection is a luxury so expensive that people has to think twice before subscribing "good" speed internet.

Despite advertisement that states we can have ADSL 1Mbps for 30€/month + taxes (16%) = 35€/month, reality is much more different. Only few cities in Spain, and only in certain areas, are provided with that access. The rest have to accept just a simple 512Kbps for about 30€-37€/month + taxes (16%) = 35€-43€/month

Not only the price is terrible, the quality of this services are low and technical assistance is expensive and, in many cases, useless.

The minimum salary in my country is just 512.8€/month from which we have to pay direct taxes (15%) so we only get about 435.88€/month. Paying ADSL means 8.03%-9.87% from that salary. A lot, don't you think?. OK, it's true that people who has ADSL earns much more, but it gives us a reference to what I'm talking about. To make a better analysys we can use the average income which is 1026.43€, paying taxes (15%) 872.47€, so ADSL means 4.01%- 5.16%. May not seem to much but, belive me, it's a lot.

In this new era of technolgy and internet we have to make great efforts to aford communications. Politicians say that it's alright, of course for them that earns much more than ordinary people.

I've tryed to find every number to make this document as much accurate as possible. I hope that all data was right.