this suggests that the reduction in mobilebroadband prices contributes not only to connecting more people but also to fostering more intense internet usage among those who are already online surveybased data that itu collects from national statistical offices confirm that next to the availability of access and the relevance of services affordability is one of the key factors that continue to determine whether or not people will use icts a number of recent studies on ict developments also confirmed these findings monitoring prices is therefore a critical step towards better policies to make ict services more affordable what is the cost of allowing ict users to have access not to the wider internet but only to selected internet content which is determined by the provider