Uganda Internet Most Expensive in World UGIndependent: Uganda
According to Surfshark's latest research of 2022, Uganda's internet affordability ranks 116th out of 117 countries surveyed in the world or 92% of the global population. This means Internet in Uganda is not affordable compared to global standards.
The high cost of internet in Uganda has been blamed on high operating expense for service providers. The telecom companies must build or lease infrastructure to connect the country to the fibre cables on the Indian Ocean coast and deliver the data over a 900km route into the country. Access remains low, however, with estimates that only 50% of the world population today uses the internet. In Africa that figure is about 30%. This is two years past the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal target of universal and affordable access to the internet by 2020.
Uganda's internet quality, considering internet speed, stability, and growth, ranks 107th in the world and is 35% worse than the global average.
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