Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Two billion Internet users in Tech Buzz News

"In early 2011, subscribers to mobile telephony reached more than five billion, while Internet users were slightly above the two billion, announced Wednesday, January 26 the head of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure . "In early 2000, there were only 500 million mobile phone subscribers in Tech News Buzz and 250 million Internet users," said Toure before the media.

One in three residents to surf the Internet According to ITU statistics, about 2.08 billion people - more than one person on the planet in three - have surfed the Internet in 2010, against 1.86 billion in 2009 . They were only 1.036 billion in 2005 to do so. For the third consecutive year, the number of users is greater in developing countries (1.19 billion, a growth of 15.6% between 2009 and 2010) than in developed countries (885 million, a growth of 7 , 79% over the same period).

THE MOBILE PHONE mobile phone use is also withering, with 5.28 billion subscribers in Tech Buzz News, more than half (3.84 billion, a growth of 18.59% in one year) in developing countries. In developed countries, the number of subscribers to mobile telephony has instead stagnated in 2010 (+ 1.91%, to 1.43 million people).

The UN agency responsible for matters relating to information technology and communication hoped that at least half of the world population will have access to mobile broadband (3G) by 2015. According to ITU, the number of subscriptions to 3G was almost tenfold in four years, surpassing the fixed broadband.

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