http://www.itnews.com.au/News/79192...ne-by-2012.aspx Quarter of the planet to be online by 2012
By Shaun Nichols
26 June 2008 01:47PM
Researchers are predicting that one quarter of the world's population will be connected to the internet within the next four years..
According to the report by Jupiter Research, the total number of people online will climb to 1.8 billion by 2012, encompassing roughly 25 percent of the planet.
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"Asia will not only have the highest online growth rate compared to other regions in the world, but will also present a substantially large pool of sophisticated online users as a market to tap into," explained Jupiter Research president David Schatsky.
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