It will take a minimum wage earner in South Africa just over five hours of work to be able to afford 1GB of prepaid mobile data.
Research on data prices in BRICS nations, conducted by research company Tarrific, showed that South African data prices are the second highest.
The graphic compares minimum wages in major cities in the BRICS nations with the price per GB of data. – Martinette Hay and Aidan Jones
*Wage amounts were gathered from wage indicator.org, salaries were converted to wages using a 20 day work month and an 8 hour day.
*Mobile data costs were gathered from a study conducted by Tarriffic.