TechnologyLow-income countries need to work three times harder to access connections three times slower

Low-income countries need to work three times harder to access connections three times slower

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The internet gap continues to exist in low income countrieswhere 3.29 billion people live, who access mobile data and broadband connections three times slower than those experienced in high-income countries, and need to work up to three times harder for them.

In order to access a 1GB mobile connection at 26Mbps users from low-income countries they work on average eleven minutes more than users in high-income countries (six minutes), but that connection is 49Mbps slower.

Something similar happens when it comes to the broadband. In this case, the working time amounts to eight hours to be able to access a plan that is, on average, about 83Mbps slower, as can be seen from the latest Surfshark report.

That is, in low-income countries they work twelve hours to be able to access broadband Internet at 34.4 Mbps, while in high-income countries they need four hours for a 117.8 Mbps connection.

These slower speeds affect, for example, a videocalla resource that in recent years has grown in use both for personal communications and for work or education.

According to Surfshark, for a video call you need a speed of connection of at least 50Mbps, which for users from low-income countries translates into problems when performing.

And although in these countries the broadband is slightly faster than the connection through mobile data, it is still insufficient to make a decent video call.

Africa has the most notorious Internet divideas only 55 percent of the population has access to the Internet (compared to 90 percent in Europe). Still, people who have access experience disparities in internet speed and affordability.

In 2022, Internet access in Africa is 79 percent less affordable than Europe and 83 percent less affordable than Oceania (the region with the most affordable Internet).

“People who cannot access the Internet are cut off from digital opportunities that people in higher-income countries have. Without Internet access, they cannot study or work online and cannot grow their economy with digital exports,” Surfshark’s head of research, Agneska Sablovskaja, said in a press release.

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