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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.
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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A new policy brief from ITU and the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), finds that high costs for Internet access relative to income remain one of.