One argument we always hear about any communications service is that it is “too expensive.” That clearly is true in developing or lesser-developed nations, where mobile internet access can cost 14 percent of gross national income per person. In developing markets, mobile internet access can cost about six percent of GNI, per person.
Consider mobile internet access. In developing countries, mobile internet access costs about 0.7 percent of gross national income, per person, according to International Telecommunications Union data.
Much the same story holds for fixed network internet access as well. Fixed network internet access in developed nations costs less than one percent of GNI per person, perhaps 11 percent of GNI per person in developing nations and as much as 30 percent of GNI per person in lesser-developed nations.
One rather impressionistic bit of evidence that prices are not excessive might be gleaned from industry profits. On a global basis, revenues dropped by about four percent between 2014 and 2015, for example.
Developed market revenues have been dropping since about 2012, according to ITU statistics.
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