South Africa and Nigeria aren't just higher income than Kenya, South Africa is nearly 7 times richer per-person and Nigeria is nearly twice as wealthy per person (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita).

I think when it comes to Internet access though, there needs to be recognition of income percentiles.  In other words, what does the richest 20% of households pay for Internet access in each of these countries?  Typically, richer people pay by the Megabit (i.e. speed of access with unlimited usage limits) and poorer people pay by the Megabyte (i.e. amount downloaded).  Mixing everybody together to come up with averages and medians really glosses over the reality of what Internet access costs.

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:


@Kioko,

good observation...that in general high income can improve ur affordability rating since affordabilty is a ratio of unit price for broadband internet against average incomes.

however this is not always the case. Nigeria for example has a higher income per capita than Kenya and yet her affordability ratio is still worse than Kenya.

walu.


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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 7:41 AM AST (Arabian) Dennis Kioko wrote:

>Interesting that South Africa ranks higher in affordability than Kenya. Is their income so high as to offset the price difference?
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>On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:24 am, Walubengo J < jwalu@yahoo.com > wrote:
>Interesting read from A4AI (Alliance for Affordable Internet)
>check out @
>http://a4ai.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Affordability-Report-2013-FINAL.pdf
>walu.
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