[x-pubpol] Disparity between Cost of Data in wired broadband and Mobile broadband.

[Joly MacFie]

Hi Siva,

In the US the NTIA just issued a report that found, even here, many find
the Internet unaffordable.
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http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/digitally-unconnected-us-who-s-not-online-and-why
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Further, of the 24 percent of households that said they didn't use the
> Internet at home because of cost concerns, an overwhelming 92 percent
> explained they could not afford it, compared to a mere 8 percent that
> responded the service was not worth the cost. This suggests that cost is
> still a barrier for a meaningful percentage of non-adopting households.


On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am attending the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Dialogue where Jac Kee
> mentioned the Alliance for Affordable Internet report. Looked up that
> report and find the following:
>
> In 2011, the UN Broadband Commission established a target
>> <http://iif.un.org/content/broadband-commission-digital-development> for
>> broadband affordability: entry-level broadband (defined as 500MB of mobile
>> data) priced at 5% or less of average national income (as measured by GNI
>> per capita). By early 2015, according to the ITU
>> <http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/publications/misr2015/MISR2015-w5.pdf>,
>> 111 countries — including all of the world’s developed countries and 60% of
>> developing countries — had achieved this target.
>
>
> The report shows estimates (2014) averaging $ 12 for 500 MB of data as
> cost for those with a monthly income of about $100, with the result that
> the cost of Access for those with less than $100 ( $ 3.1 per day ) amounts
> to as much as 12% of their income. In one or two countries it is as high as
> 35%
>
> http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2015/#poverty_
> income_inequality_and_the_case_of_mistaken_affordability
>
> What is striking is the disparity between the price of mobile broadband
> data and the price of wired broadband data.  I have a 120 GB wired
> broadband data limit for which I pay about $36 dollars per month, and
> offered 500 GB of data for a total price of $ 50.  This price more or less
> reflects the average global cost of wired broadband data, which could be
> even less expensive in the US or Australia.  If we project this pricing (
> 500 GB for $ 50 ) onto the the UN definition of minimum data for basic
> access, the cost per 500 MB actually would amount to 50 cents per month,
> which would be less than a half percent of the monthly income of a person
> earning $ 3.1 per day.  In theory, if I offer tethered wireless connection
> from my wired broadband to 1000 users in the vicinity with a data limit of
> 500 MB data limit per user, my cost per user would be 50 cents.
>
> The UN notion ( and the reality in some countries ) of the Internet NOT
> being affordable in some countries arises from this definition of
> requirement as 500 MB of data based on MOBILE data prices.
>
> Make a wish that the phone companies offer mobile data at wired broadband
> prices !  I just did.
>
> Sivasubramanian M.
>
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