Mobile Data Currently Too Expensive For Most Of The World

Mobile Data Needs to Get This Much Cheaper before Most of the World Can Afford It

Joon Ian Wong | May 18, 2016

Most of the world can’t afford mobile data at current prices. About 43% of the world’s population can afford 500 MB of mobile data a month right now. In order to double that number, data costs have to fall by 70% globally, according to a new study by Strategy&, a unit of the consulting firm PwC.
Here’s what that looks like charted in 14 countries...

"World broadband cost per megabit 2011." Source: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/07/world-bandwidth-costs-for-consumer-broadband-isp-services-continue-to-fall.html

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