I guess they'll use in their Turbo technology which is really great for mobile phones. Apart from North America and Europe, the rest of the world is still dealing with limited bandwidth caps and slow speed of GPRS/EDGE.
I just realized I'm not asian, but rather white. :/
"In the US Census, people who originate from the original peoples of the East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia are classified as part of the Asian race; while peoples from Siberia, Central Asia, and Western Asia are classified as "White".
The reason for this ridiculous prices is quite simple: cellular networks just weren't designed with data roaming in mind.
If you use data roaming, traffic from your device goes back to your home operator and only after that to Internet. I don't know if any significant changes were made in Rel-8 (Rel-10?), but for now that's how it works.