Figure 1: Portion of monthly income consumed by a mobile\/cellular broadband plan with a 1 GB data cap in select Caribbean countries as at June 2013 (Source: ICT Pulse)<\/p><\/div>\n

It is again highlighted that Guyana and Jamaica have been excluded from this 1 GB data cap assessment. As was noted in out mobile\/cellular broadband spend snapshot, both of those countries do not offer a discrete 1 GB data plan. In the case of Guyana, 1\u00a0GB exceeds the largest data plan offered by the carrier under review, whilst in the case of Jamaica, none of the carriers offer that particular plan, although larger ones are available.<\/p>\n

Outside of mobile\/cellular broadband plans with a 1 GB data cap, the service offerings across the region vary widely. Hence for other comparisons, such as that shown in Figure 2, only a handful of countries offered the specified plans, and hence could be considered. With regard to a plan with a 2 GB data cap, only the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis and the Turks and Caicos islands, offer that plan. The smallest proportion of spend against income is likely to be realised in the Turks and Caicos Islands, at approximately 0.8%, whilst the largest share of income among the sample group occurred in Jamaica, at 4.3% of monthly income. Averaged across the four countries examined, approximately 2.3% of a person\u2019s monthly income would be spent on a mobile\/cellular broadband plan with a 2 GB data cap.<\/p>\n