the cost of being online

last updated 0 minutes ago online goddess' post about the cost of blogging got me thinking around my internet connectivity and budgeting/personal finance special interests! whilst i know and believe getting online can be relatively very cheap in the UK, i know for most people it's not, and "speedy and reliable" and "affordable and/or cheap" are often in contention in a lot of countries. graph is from the ITU in case you're interested. they have lots of cool data. apologies for the graph so early in proceedings but i wanted to tell you something, wait!!!! the blue figures in the top right are the global averages, so you can see how skewed the costs are here! mobile data (i didn't know mobile broadband was the official name, it feels very futuristic?) costs over 13 times as much in africa as it does everywhere else1. for concrete numbers in my case: i have a google pixel 9 with an unlimited 5G data (i may not need this right now but on multiple occasions its saved me a lot of money on…

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