[LINK] ABC News: 2 billion people now surfing the net: UN

[Antony Barry]

2 billion people now surfing the net: UN
Thu 27 Jan 11, 03:08am AEST
The number of Internet users worldwide has mushroomed to reach the two billion mark, the head of the UN's telecommunications agency, Hamadoun Toure said. The number of mobile phone subscriptions also reached the symbolic threshold of five billion, the secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) told journalists. "At the beginning of the year 2000 there were only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users," he said. "By the beginning of this year 2011 those numbers have mushroomed to over five billion mobile users and two billion subscribers to the Internet." An ITU statistician said that the figure for mobile telephones related to subscriptions. Fresh data posted online by the agency showed that the estimated number of I...

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