the agenda for sustainable development which was adopted by the united nations in september recognizes the immense potential of icts to accelerate human progress and specifically refers to the need to significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the internet united nations a this chapter presents the latest ict price data collected by itu and analyses the price and affordability of three key ict services mobilecellular fixedbroadband and mobilebroadband benchmarking countries and regions and highlighting key trends over time fixedbroadband services recorded the largest price drop of all ict services analysed in this chapter from to while fixedbroadband subscriptions per inhabitants doubled worldwide chart