[WSIS CS-Plenary] Cuba's Internet Capacity To Increase 3,000x

[catherine]

Cuba's Internet Capacity To Increase 3,000x

According to a press release from the International Telecommunications
Union, a new undersea data cable connected to Cuba this week will increase
the amount of the country's data and video transmission speed 3,000-fold
when it becomes operation this summer.

Read more :

<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cubas_internet_capacity_increased_by_3000_percent.php>


-- 
Catherine Roy
http://www.catherine-roy.net



On Sat, February 5, 2011 1:16 am, catherine wrote:
> FYI:
>
> Why the Web Is Useless in Developing Countries – And How to Fix It
>
> Like many who study the struggles of developing countries, Steve Bratt has
> done the math on the potential of mobile phones. The United Nation’s
> International Telecommunication Union estimated that at the end of 2010
> there were 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide and that a
> full 90% of the world population now has access to a mobile network. In
> contrast, only about 2 billion people have Internet access.
>
> The high prevalence of mobile phones (even in developing countries,
> penetration rates were expected to reach 68% by the end of 2010) has led
> many non-profits to choose mobile networks as tools for positive change.
> Mobile banking in Kenya has helped farmers increase their incomes, 300,000
> people in Bangladesh signed up to learn English through their phones, and
> many consider mobile phones the key to developing nations.
>
> But Bratt, now the CEO of The World Wide Web Foundation, came up with a
> different hypothesis when he looked at the 3.3 billion-person gap between
> mobile phone users and Internet users. Theoretically, he thinks that the
> two numbers could one day even out as people use their phones to log onto
> the Internet.
>
> Read more:
>
> http://mashable.com/2011/02/04/web-developing-world
>
>
> --
> Catherine Roy
> http://www.catherine-roy.net
>
>
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