As per the report from CNN, 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 released by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) Tuesday, Oct 22, 2019. A4AI assessed 136 low and middle-income countries for their annual affordability report stating that citizens in a countries like Chad, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic must pay more than 20% of average earnings for 1GB of mobile broadband data where as 1GB of mobile broadband data should not cost more than 2% of average monthly income. By contrast, Egypt at 0.5% and Mauritius at 0.59% are considered to be the most affordable rates in the continent.
According to the same report, the average rate of 1GB mobile broadband data across the African continent is 7.12%, of the monthly income and in some cases the 1GB costs more than a 20% of the average earnings.
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