Global population overpaying for the internet connection 2022

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Petroc Taylor,
Sep 16, 2024
According to a 2022 study, around four in ten internet users worldwide were paying a fair price for an internet connection. The remaining 61 percent, almost five billion people, were determined to have been overpaying for a connection.

Share of the worldwide online population that overpays for internet connection as of 2022

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January 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Internet value was assessed according the source's 'internet value index', which is calculated using internet and mobile internet speed-to-affordability ratios and is expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A higher score represents greater internet value. A country with a value over the global average of 0.0729 is considered to have fairly priced internet.

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