The above chart is based on data from the year 2000 as listed under the African country profiles on Balancing Act Africa. Data points represent the lowest documented cost for monthly dial-up access, in USD. It must be noted that, in addition to a standard monthly fee, most providers charged …

Brief analysis:

Although all nations have experience rapid and substantial growth in Internet penetration rate (basically, the number of Internet users), the single-digit numbers are still very small in comparison to the world average. Statistically speaking, a twelve-fold change from 0.4% to 5% in a matter of 8 years is quite …