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The latest edition of the ITU report Trends in Telecommunication Reform: The Road to Next-Generation Networks, released in September 2007, gives an overall picture of how more and more people around the world are being connected to information and communication technologies (ICT). It says that by the end of 2006, there was a total of nearly 4 billion mobile and fixed-line phone subscribers, plus over 1 billion Internet users worldwide. Mobile Usage It is impressive that 61 per cent of the 2.68 billion subscribers to mobile telephony are in developing countries. And in the first quarter of 2007, two of the fastest growing markets, China and India, reported nearly 200 million more mobile subscribers between them — 87 million in China and about 110 million in India. In fact, India has announced the goal of attaining 250 million mobile users by the end of 2007 and 500 million by 2010. |
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Internet and Broadband Internet penetration rates among the developing countries in 2006 were around 10 per cent. But there is also good news. In 2006, nearly one-and-a-half times as many new Internet users were added in developing economies and LDC as in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As the world’s richer economies approach saturation at around 70 Internet users per 100 people, the potential for fresh Internet growth will come mainly from the developing world. Developing countries not only aim to add Internet users, they also seek to ensure higher quality Internet access and to improve broadband penetration. Nevertheless, this is still dominated by wealthy countries. The top 25 broadband economies (in terms of subscribers) represent over 92 per cent of the total worldwide. In 2006, some 70 per cent of broadband subscribers worldwide were located in high-income countries, which accounted for about 16 per cent of the world’s population . see in this table:
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