Tech: price of internet access in developing countries should be down

A partnership of technology companies want the cost for internet access in developing countries, including in Africa, Asia before and South America, will go down. To this end, they lobby for policy changes in those countries.

According to the Alliance for Affordable Internet, which this week begins, it should, charges for internet access among the five percent of the monthly income. In Mozambique can 1GB of internet access, for example, cost more than what an average employee in two months to receive, so says world wide web founder Tim Berners-Lee compared to Wired. Berners-Lee took with his World Wide Web Foundation, not to be confused with the World Wide Web Consortium, the initiative for the partnership. Include Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google have joined, but also auxiliaries of the British and American governments.

The Alliance for Affordable Internet, itself no money, stuck in internet access, but only when governments in developing countries, lobbying for policy changes. The executive director of A4AI said opposite Wired for example, that it is easier to wireless spectrum to allocate, so there’s more competition, and would network infrastructure often must be shared. Additionally, it seems likely that the A4AI for liberalisation of the telecoms market, will plead: Google, a member of the partnership, which states that liberalisation in Kenya has worked well.

Currently working on the A4AI, together with three other countries, but it is unclear what these are. The partnership will be “a strong focus” on Africa, but will also interfere with countries in Latin America and Asia. The grouping is reminiscent of Internet.org, a consortium that Facebook is set up and where Nokia, Samsung and Qualcomm to cooperate. That consortium mainly focuses on technical innovations and coming up with new business models.