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Vincent Chiu is a Technical Program Manager at Google.
Since 2012, Google has supported the study and publication of broadband pricing for researchers, policymakers and the private sector in order to better understand the affordability landscape and help consumers make smarter choices about broadband access. We released the first dataset in August 2012 , and periodically refresh the data ( May 2013 , March 2014 , and February 2015 ). This data has become an integral part of our understanding of global broadband affordability. Harvard's Berkman Center , Facebook
For the mobile data set, we increased the number of countries represented from 112 to 157, and the number of carriers from 331 to 402. For the fixed-line dataset, we increased the number of countries from 105 to 159, and number of carriers from 331 to 424. This data covers 99.3% of current Internet users globally on a country level.
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