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The
world is home to 7 billion people, one third of which are using the Internet.
45% of the world’s Internet users are below the age of 25.
Over the last five years, developing countries
have increased their share of the world’s total number ofInternet users from
44% in 2006, to 62% in 2011. Today, Internet users in China represent almost
25% ofthe world’s total Internet users and 37% of the developing countries’
Internet users.
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International
Internet bandwidth, a key factor for providing high-speed Internet access to a
growing number of Internet users has grown exponentially over the last five
years, from 11’000 Gbit/s in 2006, to close to 80’000 Gbit/s in 2011.
Disparities between regions in terms of
available Internet bandwidth per Internet user remain, with onaverage almost 90’000
bit/s of bandwidth per user in Europe, compared with 2’000 bit/s per user inAfrica.
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Mobile
cellular growth is slowing worldwide. In developed countries, the mobile market
is
reaching
saturation levels with on average 116 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants at the
end of2010 and a marginal growth of 1.6% from 2009-2010.
- At the same time, the developing world is increasing
its share of mobile subscriptions from 53%of total mobile subscriptions at the
end of 2005 to 73% at the end of 2010
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