Whats with the Roaming

My current job forces me to live a nomadic type of life style where I travel allot through Europe. And since WiFi or an internet connection is not always available, I had to sign up for a roaming package. Besides, WiFi is basically out of the question, you have to stand underneath the antenna and pay exorbitant fees like $5 every fifteen minutes when its not for free.
After shopping around a bit, I found that Vodafone had the cheapest plan. The only thing that sucked is, in order for me to have the roaming package, I also needed a regular home package. Anyway, the whole deal costs me about €80 Euros a month (over 100 dollars), and I only get to waste 100 megs of incoming and outgoing bandwidth. So, if you feel like this blog is a bit poor on images, etc., now you know why.
You would think that since its now (for the last 50+ years), a European community, and most countries in Europe do have a pretty advanced communication system,  necessities like communication etc,  would not be governed by ridiculous roaming fees.  I’m not sure how much it costs to get mobile access for  most of the  USA, but it sure must be cheaper than $100+  for only 100 megs.
If its a European community, then it should really start behaving like one. Although I really cant blame Vodafone, because in terms of prices, I really cant find anything that comes close.
And for now, the 100 megs, wisely stretched, allow me to do my work, and keep in touch with family and friends (IM, mail, etc.). I’m even actually using my own cooked up editor on my local machine to post to this blog just to save a couple of megs of going to the admin section and posting.
So, bare with me if I seem slow to respond, or interact, or the site looks like a dictionary, im really stretching the megs the best I can.