[governance] 1.5 Billion

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Wolfgang and all,

  Your a bit behind the curve.  Currently there are about 2000 ISP's
in the US alone that are wireless ISP's exclusively, and more on the
way.  Ergo, as the US leads in this segment of Internet growth we
hope that the EU and Asia, which is also growing rapidly in wireless
exclusive Internet connectivity, will reduce the broadband especially
restrictions in the EU so that a more global realization in this segment
can be more homogeneous.  But alas the EC council just this week
has taken a much more restrictive approach instead.  How sad,
and uncooperative...

Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:

> Dear friends
>
> last week the cyberworld crossed another historical line: Since November 5, 2008 we have now more than 1.5 billilon Internet users in the world (http://www.50x15.com/en%2Dus/) <http://www.50x15.com/en%2Dus/> .
>
> When WSIS ended in December 2005 we had just crossed the one billion line. With other words: half a billion new users in the last three years. Probably we will reach to two billion line in 2010 which makes it rather realistic to reach the WSIS goal of "half of mankind until 2015".
>
> BTW, we have nearly 4 billion mobile phones in the world. If all these phone will be connected to the Internet the digital opportunities will look rather different.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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