{"id":6180,"date":"2019-10-28T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6180"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"africans-face-most-expensive-internet-charges-in-the-world-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/28\/africans-face-most-expensive-internet-charges-in-the-world-new-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Africans Face Most Expensive Internet Charges in The world, New report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Kieron Monks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consumers in African countries are paying some of the highest rates in the world for internet access as a proportion of income, according to a new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)&nbsp;assessed 136 low and middle-income countries for their annual Affordability Report.<br> Middle-income examples from the report include Malaysia, Colombia, India, Jamaica, South Africa, and Ghana, while low income examples were Nepal, Mali, Haiti, Liberia, Yemen, and Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> The A4AI is an initiative of The Web Foundation, founded by inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee, with partner organizations that include Google and Facebook.<br> The A4AI defines affordability as 1GB of mobile broadband data costing no more than 2% of average monthly income. But the average across the African continent is 7.12%, and in some cases 1GB costs more than a fifth of average earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> Such prices are &#8220;too expensive for all but the wealthiest few,&#8221; the report states, citing cost as the primary reason why an estimated 49% of the global population&nbsp;remains offline.<br> The report authors argue that sluggish markets and monopolies are a primary cause of high prices and offer several policy prescriptions to address the issue\u2026Read more&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kieron Monks Consumers in African countries are paying some of the highest rates in the world for internet access as a proportion of income, according to a new report.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}