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The August Sittings of the Permanent Committees of the sixth Parliament of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) are scheduled to be held from 22 August to 02 September 2022 at the seat of the continental Parliament in Midrand, South Africa.

The Sittings will be guided by the African Union theme of 2022; ‘Building resilience in nutrition on the African continent: Accelerate the human capital, social and economic development’.

Nigeria ranked 6th on cheapest broadband per GB

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Nigeria has been ranked sixth in the latest study by the Research ICT Africa, on some 10 African countries with cheapest 1 Gigabytes (GB) data, reports ITRealms.

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 10⁹ in the International System of Units (SI), thus, one gigabyte is 1000000000 bytes, whereas the unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.

ITRealms gathered that the 10 countries reviewed by the study includes Egypt, Mozambique, Tunisia, Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Guinea, Uganda, Rwanda and Madagascar.

Researcher, Communications & Evaluation Advisor to Research ICT Africa, Chenai Chair confirmed this to ITRealms saying that Egypt offers broadband worth of 1GB for 1.74 United States Dollar, followed by Mozambique at 2.12, Tunisia at 2.21, Ghana at 2.45; Tanzania – 2.99, Nigeria 3.2, Guinea – 3.29, Uganda – 3.43, Rwanda – 3.72 and Madagascar selling 1GB of broadband at 4.66.

Singling out Rwanda for examination, Chenai said Research ICT Africa compared the best performer Egypt (USD 3.13), prices with Rwanda were USD1.07 is more expensive. 

Stressing though that the cost of 1GB of data continued to decline over time, Rwanda was overtaken by Tanzania which offered the best price in Q2 2016.

“Rwanda was later overtaken by Nigeria and Tunisia, ending up in 9th position by Q4 2016 when the price of 1GB was USD3.72; nearly two US dollars higher than the 1st-ranked country, Egypt (USD1.74),” she said.

Chenai pointed out that as with many predominantly prepaid mobile markets, bundled and dynamically priced products are better value for money than 1GB of data, the international standard for data measurement.

Nonye Dom/GEE 

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