GSMA Warns Growing Device Costs Deepen Nigeria’s Mobile Internet Usage Gap

Nigeria is facing a widening digital disparity as roughly 140 million citizens remain offline despite living in areas covered by mobile broadband networks. According to the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) in its State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report , the critical obstacle holding back adoption in Africa’s largest economy is no longer network coverage, but rather the prohibitive cost of internet-enabled smartphones. The mobile usage gap, the difference between t