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r/MurderedByWords • u/NefariousnessIll8787 • Mar 16 '23
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So you have a phone that can’t text or call, and it’s connected to WhatsAp without using any data?
Also, 1GB of data (about 1000 emails) costs $0.65c in Ghana. Average income was $75 in 2019. That’s a smaller share of income than I pay for mobile.
4 u/flamethekid Mar 16 '23 Where did you get those numbers from? 1GB of data costs around 12 cedis or around $1 on mtn and 10 cedis on Vodafone. Those are substantial amounts of money. And whatapp uses far less data. And the same money you spend on data goes towards phone calls as well 1 u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23 Errr. If 12 cedis is $1, 10 is about right. My sauce for this is pretty reliable, though the data is from 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1274872/price-for-mobile-data-in-ghana/ But I also see there’re wild fluctuations in the Cedi rate. It was like 15:1 just a month ago, so that will distort any “average” figures too. 1 u/MrMontombo Mar 16 '23 I'll take that as a little lesson that internet detectives usually don't have access to accurate data.
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Where did you get those numbers from?
1GB of data costs around 12 cedis or around $1 on mtn and 10 cedis on Vodafone.
Those are substantial amounts of money.
And whatapp uses far less data.
And the same money you spend on data goes towards phone calls as well
1 u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23 Errr. If 12 cedis is $1, 10 is about right. My sauce for this is pretty reliable, though the data is from 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1274872/price-for-mobile-data-in-ghana/ But I also see there’re wild fluctuations in the Cedi rate. It was like 15:1 just a month ago, so that will distort any “average” figures too. 1 u/MrMontombo Mar 16 '23 I'll take that as a little lesson that internet detectives usually don't have access to accurate data.
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Errr. If 12 cedis is $1, 10 is about right.
My sauce for this is pretty reliable, though the data is from 2021.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1274872/price-for-mobile-data-in-ghana/
But I also see there’re wild fluctuations in the Cedi rate. It was like 15:1 just a month ago, so that will distort any “average” figures too.
1 u/MrMontombo Mar 16 '23 I'll take that as a little lesson that internet detectives usually don't have access to accurate data.
I'll take that as a little lesson that internet detectives usually don't have access to accurate data.
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u/VastFair8982 Mar 16 '23
So you have a phone that can’t text or call, and it’s connected to WhatsAp without using any data?
Also, 1GB of data (about 1000 emails) costs $0.65c in Ghana. Average income was $75 in 2019. That’s a smaller share of income than I pay for mobile.