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The world is a big place. I remember a country in Africa selling at $35/Mbps.
by inemesitaffia 2y ago
The world is a big place. I remember a country in Africa selling at $35/Mbps.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoFrom a 2023 article A report by the Internet Society (ISOC) about IXPN and Kenyan IXP revealed that in early 2020, the port charge at IXPN was US$0.428 per month per Mbps (for a 1 Gbps port), while the cost of international IP transit is US$27.45 per Mbps per month (also for 1 Gbps capacity). Let me find more recent estimates. Just note that we aren't all in Ashburn, Frankfurt or Amsterdam
- inemesitaffia 2y ago"Richard Obita, the Director, Planning, Research and Development at NITA-U, assured the MPs of his group’s aim to reduce the cost of internet further from the current US$70 for each megabit per second to US$35, which, if correct, is still astronomical compared to many countries." From Uganda April 2023. And Zimbabwe and Eritrea are more expensive