ArsTechnica has an interesting piece about the price of internet service in Kazakhstan, and lemme tell you, it ain’t cheap. Currently, unlimited phone modem service will run you about $111 dollars a month, DSL 1.5Mbps is $3,355 a month, and a 6Mbps cable connection is a whopping $22,032 dollars monthly. (Note to the readers, I can’t even get a 6Mbps connection, not that I’d pay twenty grand for it anyways) Not only are the prices completely insane, but you have only 1, count ‘em, 1 choice for your service provider, Kazakhtelecom, who also reserves the right to block any web addresses it likes as well as reporting you for “unlawful activities of political and economic organizations in creating, disseminating, and using information.” Yikes, that’s one spot officially crossed off the vacation list. Hit the link to Ars for the full story.