Worldwide Mobile Data Pricing 2021 report from Cable.co.uk, which surveyed some 230 countries on the affordability of data, ranked Nigeria behind Sudan (fifth globally), Algeria, (16th(, Somalia (22nd), Ghana (27th), Libya (30th), Tanzania 32nd and Mauritius (33rd). The study noted that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still has the most expensive data prices in the world. The report compared the cost of 1GB of mobile data across 6,148 mobile data plans in the sampled nations. xIts findings in the region showed that the average price for 1GB of mobile data was around $6.44. Its most expensive country was Mauritania ($5.56), the only nation in the axis to exceed the global average of $4.07.

Source: The Guardian April 26, 2021 04:30 UTC