Stefan Mileschin

Some cases dramatically

The prices of teclo services are dropping and in some cases this trend is dramatic, according to the ITU.

ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao said his team have been adding up some numbers and concluded that prices have decreased from 2013 to 2019 relative to GNI per capita The global average price of a mobile-data basket of 1.5 GB shrank from 8.4 percent of GNI per capita in 2013 to 3.2 percent in 2019, at a compound annual growth rate of almost -15 percent. When expressed in USD, the global average price of a mobile-data basket of at least 1.5 GB dropped by seven percent on average annually between 2013 and 2019.

Fixed-broadband packages remain generally more expensive than mobile-data packages (although data allowances are not always directly comparable). Over the past four years, the affordability of fixed broadband has not changed substantially, but advertised download speeds continue to increase.

An entry-level mobile-voice basket remains broadly affordable in most countries. In 70 countries, a low-usage mobile-voice plan was available for less than one percent of gross national income (GNI) per capita, and in a further 37 countries it stood below two percent. Although causality is difficult to prove, price reductions have undoubtedly helped contribute to the rapid rise in the mobile-voice penetration rate, alongside growing competition and better price monitoring and evaluation by regulators.

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