[mw-reg-national-l] Malawi has the most expensive 1GB of data - is it true?

Tue Jul 7 11:27:57 CAT 2020

As a consumer, I think they are saying the truth. Always wondered why it is so.

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Subject: [mw-reg-national-l] Malawi has the most expensive 1GB of data - is it true?

Some Malawians in the diaspora have been complaining to me that Malawi has the most expensive 1GB of mobile data in the world and are citing this web page:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/

an extract of which says the following:

... """"The Most Expensive Countries for 1 GB of Data

On the other end of the spectrum, here are the top five most expensive countries for one gigabyte of mobile data:

Overall Rank    Country           Average price of 1GB (USD)

155      🇲🇼 Malawi        $27.41

154      🇧🇯 Benin           $27.22

153      🇹🇩 Chad           $23.33

152      🇾🇪 Yemen         $15.98

151      🇧🇼 Botswana    $13.87

A striking trend worth noting is that four out of five of the most expensive countries for mobile data are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). """" ...

So, as practitioners in the ICT sector, is this true?  Do we need to do anything about it ?

Or do we have to influence MACRA to do something about it, as some of those in the  diaspora seem to be indicating?

Regards,

Paulos

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