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Periodic Table of World Internet Facts

December 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Twenty-Five percent (about 1.73 billion) of the world’s population is currently online, largely in developed world countries. Challenges for bringing the other four billion online ...
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Best of Appfrica 2009

December 6, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The close of the year is often a time for reflection, for individuals and companies alike. For Appfrica it’s no exception as we profile the ...
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Google controls 6% of all Internet traffic

October 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Only 150 networks control over 50% of all online traffic. This, in comparison with 5 years ago, when traffic was democratized among thousands and thousands ...
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1 Household in 5 Worldwide has Broadband

September 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A new Gartner study says that one household in five will have broadband access by the end of 2009. A total of 422 million households ...
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Tanzania’s SimbaNET Hooks into SEACOM

August 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Last week in Dar Es Salaam, the Tanzanian ISP SimbaNET plugged into SEACOM. Issa Michuzi reports: SimbaNET becomes one of the very first private company to ...
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Dreaming of an Internet Co-Op

September 11, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
One of the things that baffles me about the Ugandan ITC space is the lack of collaboration among the people and businesses here. In ...
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The Current State of Internet Penetration in Africa

August 16, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Image by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL via Flickr Fewer than four out of 100 Africans currently use the internet, and broadband ...
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