2020 Affordability Report

Billions of people around the world are kept offline by the cost to connect. As the world considers how to build back from the Covid-19 crisis, our 2020 Affordability Report calls for governments to develop effective national broadband plans to make internet access more affordable and enable more people to connect.

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Meaningful Connectivity — unlocking the full power of internet access

Over half of the world is now online, but many people lack the quality of access they need to use the internet’s most powerful features, such as online learning, video streaming and telehealth. It’s time to raise the bar for internet access and aim for meaningful connectivity for everyone.

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Covid-19 Policy Brief: Internet Access & Affordability

Almost half the world’s population doesn’t have internet access. To be without connectivity in normal times is a grave disadvantage. In the crisis we’re facing, it’s devastating. We must get meaningful connectivity to as many people as quickly as possible — without losing sight of the longer term goal to reach universal internet access.

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Mobile broadband pricing data

What is the price of internet access across the developing world? Our new data — released September 2019 — looks at the cost of mobile broadband packages across 100 low- and middle-income countries.

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The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) is a global coalition working to drive down the cost of internet access in low- and middle-income countries through policy and regulatory reform.

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How we work

Driven by the belief that affordability should not be a barrier to internet access, we use a combination of advocacy, research, and in-country engagement to develop the policies needed to reduce the cost to connect and enable everyone, everywhere to afford to come online.

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Where we work

Our work is focused in the low- and middle-income countries where internet costs tend to be the highest, and is led by national, in-country coalitions across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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