Mobile internet prices in developing countries continue to make progress towards the goal of entry level internet access costs of no more than two percent of monthly per-person gross national income, with a usage allowance of a gigabyte, a report issued by the International Telecommunications Union says.
To be sure, a significant affordability gap remains between developed and developing countries, especially for service plans that include at least 1.5 GB of data. “Nevertheless, developing countries have been the main drivers of a global price decline for all baskets,” the ITU says.
Expressed as a percentage of median GNI per capita, prices for low-usage and high-usage data and voice baskets have dropped most significantly in developing countries (from four to 3.1 percent and from 4.8 percent to 4.1 percent, respectively), ITU says.
An earlier report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet also found progress over the past five years.
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