Archive for August 21st, 2007

Broadband Access Cost In Pakistan Is Among The Highest In The World

Published by Babar Bhatti on August 21, 2007 under Broadband Internet, Digital Divide, Telecommunications, blogging

September issue of Wired magazine has an interesting and colorful illustration in which broadband access cost of various countries is expressed as a percentage of their monthly incomes. Pakistan was featured there as well, as you can see below (click to see a higher resolution image). The headline screams: Access Denied. Broadband service is available worldwide (to 3% of the population) but it’s beyond most people’s budgets, it adds.

I’d leave it to the readers to determine whether the number mentioned there for Pakistan: $106.9/100Kbps, is right or not. Oh, and don’t miss the comment about the bloggers in Pakistan.

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