UK broadband is the eighthcheapest out of 28 countries in western Europe, with lower prices (£30.70 per month) than the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Ireland, according to a new league table of global prices. Italy (£21.72) has the cheapest broadband, ahead of Germany (£25.62) in second.
The figures, from research company BDRC Continental and broadband-comparison site Cable.co.uk, show that the UK is the world’s 63rd cheapest country, behind several nations with worse infrastructure, including Syria, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Albania.
Iran is home to the world’s cheapest broadband, at just £4.06 a month (see box). Five of the 10 cheapest are countries that were part of the Soviet Union: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Georgia.
Many of the most expensive countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, or the Caribbean,…
