New study shows that the country with the most expensive cell phone bills in the world is Equatorial Guinea where 1 GB of mobile data costs an average of $49.67 USD. The least expensive is Israel at $0.05 per 1 GB of mobile data on average.

TL;DR

One country in Sub-Saharan Africa was found to have sky-high data costs, with an average of nearly $50 for just 1 gigabyte of mobile data, while on the other hand, a country in the Middle East has an extremely low average data cost of just $0.05 per GB.Equatorial Guinea is just one of two parts of the world where the average price of 1 GB of data was more than $40, the other being the $44.56 per GB cost of data in the Falkland Islands.The main reason for the high data costs and more expensive cell phone bills in Sub-Saharan Africa is a lack of competition between mobile network operators.The 20 Countries and Territories Where 1 GB of Mobile Data Costs the Most- Equatorial Guinea: $49.67- Falkland Islands: $44.56- Saint Helena: $39.87- São Tomé and Príncipe: $30.97- Malawi: $25.46- Chad: $23.33- Namibia: $22.37- Turkmenistan: $21.41- Tokelau: $20.48- Bermuda: $19.80- Yemen: $15.98- Cocos (Keeling) Islands: $13.47- Cayman Islands: $11.97- Caribbean Netherlands: $10.94- Kiribati: $9.94- Virgin Islands (British): $9.54- Central African Republic: $9.03- Cyprus: $8.84- Seychelles: $8.64- Greece: $8.16Where in the World Does Mobile Data Cost the Least?The 20 Countries and Territories Where 1 GB of Mobile Data Costs the Least- Israel: $0.05- Kyrgyzstan: $0.15- Fiji: $0.19- Italy: $0.27- Sudan: $0.27- Russia: $0.29- Moldova: $0.32- Bangladesh: $0.34- Sri Lanka: $0.38- Chile: $0.39- France: $0.41- Indonesia: $0.42- Belarus: $0.43- San Marino: $0.43- Vietnam: $0.49- Algeria: $0.51- China: $0.52- Samoa: $0.56- Pakistan: $0.59- Kazakhstan: $0.59How does your country rank when it comes to the average cost of 1 GB of mobile data?"

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