<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Siva,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In the US the NTIA just issued a report that found, even here, many find the Internet unaffordable. </div><img src="https://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/63c74b534716dd0fe4118a526fc22575/spacer.gif" style="border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;" width="0" height="0"><img src="http://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/63c74b534716dd0fe4118a526fc22575/spacer.gif" style="border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;" width="0" height="0"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/digitally-unconnected-us-who-s-not-online-and-why">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/digitally-unconnected-us-who-s-not-online-and-why</a></div><font face="yw-b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e-63c74b534716dd0fe4118a526fc22575--to" style="display:none"></font><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">Further, of the 24 percent of households that said they didn't use the Internet at home because of cost concerns, an overwhelming 92 percent explained they could not afford it, compared to a mere 8 percent that responded the service was not worth the cost. This suggests that cost is still a barrier for a meaningful percentage of non-adopting households.</span></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">I am attending the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Dialogue where Jac Kee mentioned the Alliance for Affordable Internet report. Looked up that report and find the following:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:lora,serif">In 2011, the UN Broadband Commission established a </span><a href="http://iif.un.org/content/broadband-commission-digital-development" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;outline:none;color:rgb(29,116,148);font-family:lora,serif" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent">target</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:lora,serif"> for broadband affordability: entry-level broadband (defined as 500MB of mobile data) priced at 5% or less of average national income (as measured by GNI per capita). By early 2015, </span><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/publications/misr2015/MISR2015-w5.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;outline:none;color:rgb(29,116,148);font-family:lora,serif" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent">according to the ITU</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:lora,serif">, 111 countries — including all of the world’s developed countries and 60% of developing countries — had achieved this target.</span></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16.8px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:transparent;font-family:lora,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The report shows estimates (2014) averaging $ 12 for 500 MB of data as cost for those with a monthly income of about $100, with the result that the cost of Access for those with less than $100 ( $ 3.1 per day ) amounts to as much as 12% of their income. In one or two countries it is as high as 35%</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2015/#poverty_income_inequality_and_the_case_of_mistaken_affordability" target="_blank">http://a4ai.org/affordability-<wbr>report/report/2015/#poverty_<wbr>income_inequality_and_the_<wbr>case_of_mistaken_affordability</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">What is striking is the disparity between the price of mobile broadband data and the price of wired broadband data. I have a 120 GB wired broadband data limit for which I pay about $36 dollars per month, and offered 500 GB of data for a total price of $ 50. This price more or less reflects the average global cost of wired broadband data, which could be even less expensive in the US or Australia. If we project this pricing ( 500 GB for $ 50 ) onto the the UN definition of minimum data for basic access, the cost per 500 MB actually would amount to 50 cents per month, which would be less than a half percent of the monthly income of a person earning $ 3.1 per day. In theory, if I offer tethered wireless connection from my wired broadband to 1000 users in the vicinity with a data limit of 500 MB data limit per user, my cost per user would be 50 cents. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The UN notion ( and the reality in some countries ) of the Internet NOT being affordable in some countries arises from this definition of requirement as 500 MB of data based on MOBILE data prices. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Make a wish that the phone companies offer mobile data at wired broadband prices ! I just did.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Sivasubramanian M.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_472725664865722278gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy" target="_blank">Sivasubramanian M</a></div></div>
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