Economies meeting the mobile broadband affordability target
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130
Global · 2025
Economies meeting the mobile broadband affordability target worldwide stood at 130 in 2025 (ITU).
- Publisher
- ITU
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Third paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Of the 205 economies for which data are available for the mobile broadband basket, 130 meet the affordability target, six more than in 2024.
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- International Telecommunication Union. (2025). Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Affordability of ICT services. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-affordability-of-ict-services/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DCRF58ZWT2ZRVRP2TGYNV99XH2
- MLA
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Affordability of ICT services." 2025, https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-affordability-of-ict-services/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DCRF58ZWT2ZRVRP2TGYNV99XH2.
- Chicago
- International Telecommunication Union. "Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Affordability of ICT services." 2025. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-affordability-of-ict-services/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DCRF58ZWT2ZRVRP2TGYNV99XH2.
- BibTeX
- @misc{itu2025economiesv99xh2, author = {{International Telecommunication Union}}, title = {Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Affordability of ICT services}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_DCRF58ZWT2ZRVRP2TGYNV99XH2}, note = {Original source: https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25-affordability-of-ict-services/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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- Publisher
- International Telecommunication Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Measuring digital development: Facts and Figures 2025 - Affordability of ICT services
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 17 November 2025
- Locator
- Third paragraph
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See the source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_DCRF58ZWT2ZRVRP2TGYNV99XH2