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El Reg reports
Tired of continual price hikes on your broadband deal? Then why not move to Iran? According to a study released today, it has the cheapest broadband (if you're willing to ignore political and social problems).
The survey conducted by cable.co.uk and BDRC Continental ranked 196 countries on their monthly prices for a broadband connection, using 3,351 consumer packages tracked over eight weeks (ending October 12) to calculate the average.
At $5.37 (£4.05) a month, Iran beats second placed Ukraine at $5.52 a month, with both significantly cheaper than Russia at $9.82 a month.
Burkina Faso is last at 196th place, costing users $954.54 (£720.77) per month. Papua New Guinea is 195th, but much better at $597.20 (£450.95), then Namibia at $431.99 (£326.20). The UK comes in 62nd place, averaging £30.54 a month($40.44).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @07:53PM
No thanks. What I do is pay for the cheapest internet access I can find: $20 gets me ISDN speeds, good enough for email and SSH. Then I choose to live in an area of high population density and piggyback off all of the neighbors for my high bandwidth needs like streaming movies.