By 2025, entry-level broadband services should be made affordable in developing countries at less than two percent of monthly gross national income per capita, the International Telecommunications Union predicts.
That is worth noting as we are making progress. In 2020, 56 developing economies achieved the two percent affordability target for entry level mobile broadband basket (1.5 GB of usage).
Internet access remained unaffordable in 84 of the economies around the world (45 percent), and the fixed broadband basket (5 GB usage) was unaffordable in 111 (56 percent) of countries.
Some 23 developing economies have reached the minimum fixed broadband performance levels.
Since 2016, the cost of 1 GB of data as a share of monthly GDP per capita in low- and middle-income countries has fallen by more than 40 percent. Still, more than half of LMICs still fall short of the Broadband Commission’s two percent target.
For LMICs, prices on average have dropped from seven percent of monthly income in 2015 to 3.1 percent in 2019.
Some countries, such as Ecuador, India and Rwanda, have witnessed a decline of more than 60 percent in prices over this time, the ITU says.
However, there are still at least one billion people living in 57 countries across the world where 1 GB of mobile data does not meet the ITU standard for affordable Internet.
In 18 of the LDCs, the price of 5 GB of fixed broadband is
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