{"id":128,"date":"2025-09-26T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:14:58","slug":"is-the-smartphone-price-tag-locking-nigerians-out-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/is-the-smartphone-price-tag-locking-nigerians-out-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the smartphone price tag locking Nigerians out of the internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/137279.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/137279.webp 800w, https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/137279-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/137279-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Is the smartphone price tag locking Nigerians out of the internet?\">Is the smartphone price tag locking Nigerians out of the internet?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you think about why millions of Nigerians aren\u2019t online, the first guess is usually infrastructure. Maybe there aren\u2019t enough towers. Maybe rural communities just don\u2019t have 4G coverage. But the thing is, Nigeria has the coverage, 5G, 4G, you name it. What it doesn&#8217;t have are the devices.Smartphones have quietly become one of the biggest barriers to connectivity, and their rising price tags are keeping six out of ten Nigerians offline. Think about that for a second. Six out of ten.According to GSMA\u2019s State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2025 report, 130 million Nigerians lived under mobile coverage but still couldn\u2019t log on in 2024, that&#8217;s about 10 million more than the year before. That puts the country right behind India (690 million) and China (240 million), and tied with Pakistan (130 million), in the global offline population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the smartphone price tag locking Nigerians out of the internet? When you think about why millions of Nigerians aren\u2019t online, the first guess is usually infrastructure. Maybe there aren\u2019t enough towers. Maybe rural communities just don\u2019t have 4G coverage. But the thing is, Nigeria has the coverage, 5G, 4G, you name it. What it&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2184036332019361_417210888852491":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_2184036332019361_417210888852491","service":"facebook","timestamp":1758866689,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,116,114],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-internet","tag-smartphone","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlomax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}