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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @09:26PM
...and Persia was what Iran was called through most of history.
Trivia: We get the chess term "checkmate" from the Persian for "The king is dead" ("Shah mort").
More trivia: Though the country is majority Islamic, the language of Iran isn't Arabic; it's Farsi.
There's also been a bunch of squabbling over whether the body of water should be called the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf.
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