[LINK] Net still slow in third world

[Tony Barry]

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This item has been extracted from - THE NET NEWS
>From Alan Farrelly
October 5, 2000


Tony
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NET STILL SLOW IN THIRD WORLD
eMarketer says  Internet use in India, the second most populous 
country, is still
low  - 270,000 active adult users at the end of last year and maybe 
1.5 million
by the end of this year.  That's only 0.2% of India's adult population. See
http://www.emarketer.com/etopics/articles/20000922_india.html?ref=dn 
And in Africa,
  a meeting   in Nigeria has called for accelerated development of the telecom
industry to ensure Africa isn't left behind. As Bill Clinton pointed out
recently, Nigeria has   9000 Internet subscribers when it should be more like 9
million. See http://allafrica.com/stories/200009270358.html
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