A Research ICT Africa policy brief from June 2014 asks the question: “Is broadband data worth the money?” The answer depends on where you live.

Lebanon’s leading English daily newspaper recently cited African nations as benchmarks for Internet speeds. Citing Net Index by Ookla speed data, The Daily Star wrote:
…Lebanon’s information economy is stymied by connectivity rates that trail behind states like Zambia and Tanzania, where speeds are twice as fast while GDP per capita …

African download speeds range widely but average 2.1 Mbps, according to data from over 300,000 bandwidth tests on SpeedTest.net. Upload speeds are half as fast.