Affordability Report 2019

In the report, A4AI calls for governments to focus their policies and regulations on building healthy broadband markets that improve competition, bring down prices and expand internet access:

• Adopt policy and regulation that support market competition, including fair rules for market entry and incentives to encourage new competitors.
• Bring down costs for new operators to compete by supporting affordable access to wholesale internet data, so that competitors aren’t locked out by high capital barriers to entry.
• Invest in public internet access, such as free public WiFi and telecenters, and support community networks to expand internet coverage to those not served by commercial markets and provide consumers with more choices to get online.