(CTU / A4AI), Press Release
May 10th, 2021 The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), represented by Secretary General Rodney Taylor, and the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), represented by Executive Director Sonia Jorge, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday 5th May 2021.
The signing marks their commitment to coordinate efforts and promote joint activities with the goal of expanding meaningful and affordable Internet access through policy and regulatory reform.
The scope of this collaboration will include hosting presentations, seminars and hands-on workshops to support government officials to modernise their policy frameworks to achieve universal affordable and meaningful connectivity in the Caribbean region, leaving no one behind. This will assist them to design or upgrade national ICT policy and regulatory instruments and frameworks; and undertake joint research activities (including data collection, surveys, development of case studies, e
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In light of the importance of addressing the digital divide in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Sustainable Development Goals, the President of the General Assembly has convened a one-day High-level Thematic Debate on Digital Cooperation and Connectivity on 27 April 2021.
In this letter, we call on governments, industry, multilateral institutions, civil society, and international financial institutions to close the digital divide by putting people at the centre of our approach to achieving meaningful connectivity for everyone.
In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to accelerate concerted action at all levels to close the digital divide, especially the gender digital gap. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the deep disparities in access to affordable and meaningful connectivity.
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Nigeria’s fixed broadband services price was at 22.08 per cent of Gross National Income per capita in 2020, 10 times above the standard pricing for developing countries.
According to the UN Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development’s Target two for 2025, entry-level broadband service in developing countries should not cost more than two per cent of monthly GNI per capita, but Nigeria’s fixed broadband pricing surpassed this by 20.8 per cent.
However, its mobile-broadband services pricing in 2020 fell within target, at 1.7 per cent.
A report from the International Telecommunication Union and the Alliance for Affordable Internet titled ‘The affordability of ICT services 2020’ revealed that the global median price for entry-level mobile-broadband services in 2020 was at 1.7 per cent.
Mar 5, 2021
High costs for Internet access relative to income remain one of the main barriers to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) services worldwide – and this is particularly true in emerging markets.
This is according to a new policy brief from ITU and the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) which finds that, taking income differences into account, a mobile broadband subscription with at least 1,5Gb of data costs around four times more in developing countries than in developed ones.
“The affordability of ICT services 2020” analyses five categories, namely mobile broadband, fixed broadband, mobile data and voice low-usage, mobile data and voice high-usage, and mobile cellular low usage. Service prices in all five categories continued a slow but steady decline over the past year.