COVID-19 causes spike in broadband cost in Nigeria, others | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) have revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major spike in prices of broadband services

• How Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, DR Congo droveThe bodies noted that Internet connectivity became less affordable around the world the same year.

It pointed out that relative prices of fixed broadband services climbed to 3.5 per cent of gross national income per capita globally in 2021, up from 2.9 per cent in 2020. The relative prices of mobile broadband services around the world also edged up to two per cent of GNI per capita, from 1.9 per cent a year earlier.

THIS came as World Health Organisation , yesterday, said vaccination campaigns in populous countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria drove Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine uptake by 15 per cent in two months.

 

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