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 4G now available to 85 per cent of the global population…. … but only half can afford to pay for mobile Internet access Costs are falling but only slightly and far too slowly  Digital inequality remains a massive globally divisive problem Almost half the people on the planet with access to a 4G network don t use their smartphones to access the mobile Internet because it costs too much, thus negating the main value and purpose of having a handset capable of providing web access in the first place. A new co-authored policy briefing from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in collaboration with the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) makes it clear that the high price of mobile Internet access relative to the low incomes and minimal discretionary spending that are the dismal norm in many parts of the developing world is a major barrier to personal, local, regional and national social and economic development. In many parts of the world the cost of accessing i

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