Internet penetration by country

[hugegrowth]

In paper yesterday, saw these figures:

Canada, USA, Germany, Korea, Japan: all in the 70 to 76% range, with Korea the highest.

Brazil 35%

China 22%

Russia 21%

India 7%

what this tells me is that there are 100's of millions of more people yet to get online in emerging countries. This should have some imact on demand for technology gear and to some extent even domains.

[draggar]

The backbones seem pretty secure and stable at this time, as long as no large ships drag their anchors across them.

As the demand rises, more ISPs will pop up to meet the demand, giving more money to the infrastructure to improve itself.

[katherine]

You forgot Europe (northern Europe in particular).

[Anthony Ng]

I actually read this piece of news about a week ago:

South Korea tops in broadband penetration: study
Jun 18, 2009

WASHINGTON (AFP) — South Korea, where 95 percent of homes have broadband, Singapore and Taiwan are among the top five countries in terms of access to the high-speed Internet, according to a survey released Thursday.

The United States, where just 60 percent of households had broadband as of last year, ranked 20th in the survey of 58 countries by Boston-based Strategy Analytics.

Five of the top 10 countries or territories in the survey were in Asia and the firm predicted the broadband subscriber base in the Asia-Pacific region will grow on average by a further 15 percent a year between 2009 and 2013.

Strategy Analytics said South Korea's highly urbanized population and its government-backed broadband policy accounted for its high rate of broadband penetration.

Singapore ranked second on the list with household broadband penetration of 88 percent, followed by the Netherlands (85 percent), Denmark (82 percent), Taiwan (81 percent), Hong Kong (81 percent), Israel (77 percent), Switzerland (76 percent), Canada (76 percent) and Norway (75 percent).

Among other Asia-Pacific nations, Australia ranked 11th with 72 percent, Japan ranked 16th with 64 percent, New Zealand ranked 25th with 57 percent, China ranked 43rd with 21 percent and Malysia ranked 44th, also with 21 percent.

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp..._gc6-IvdDHxt6w

A little bit of digging, and this:

http://www.strategyanalytics.com/def...Viewer&a0=4748