One Billion People Online!

by Larry Richman on July 6, 2006

In late in 2005, the world reached a milestone as Internet access became available to one billion people worldwide. Approximately 845 million use it regularly.

Asia-Pacific is the largest broadband region containing nearly 40% of the world’s broadband households. Latin America was the fastest growing broadband region, with 70% subscriber growth.

Source: Worldwide Online Access: 2004-2010 (see http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003975 for more information).

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