Wednesday, March 6, 2013
This Simple Chart Shows Where Broadband Growth Is Going to Happen
While it took 20 years for the first two billion people to connect to the Internet, the next two billion users will be coming online in only five years, according to Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla.
That is a breathtaking speed of adoption.
Average revenue per user will not be as high as in the developed regions, and access speeds might not always be as high, either.
But the Internet-using population of the planet could double in just five years. Asia will be the global center or gravity in terms of gross subscriber additions, but Africa's growth rate will be faster.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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