2019 Affordability Report

Billions of people around the world are kept offline by the cost to connect. Our finds that consolidated broadband markets are keeping prices high and putting life-changing internet access out of reach for hundreds of millions of people.

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Introducing Meaningful Connectivity

To raise the bar for internet access, A4AI has developed “Meaningful Connectivity" — a new standard that measures not only if someone has access to the internet, but the quality of connection they have.

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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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Affordable internet is “1 for 2”

Closing the growing digital divide and achieving universal access means we must work toward a more ambitious affordability target — 1GB of mobile data priced at 2% or less of average monthly income.

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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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