3.2 Billion People On Earth Already Connected Internet

Information continues to grow very rapidly from day to day. Along with that, Earth's population has access to the Internet continues to increase.

Internal global survey telecommunication Union (ITU) released today, Monday (30/11), indicates that there are currently 3.2 million people were connected to the Internet. The amount is equal to about 43% of the 7.3 billion total world population.

Institutions under the auspices of the United Nations that also puts South Korea as the most connected countries in the world. Denmark followed in second position and Iceland, the UK and Sweden respectively in the next position.

Even so, the ITU found that there are still 350 million people who can not access the internet at all. They mostly live in the world's poorest countries, such as Malawi, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Chad.

The survey also showed that the mobile access of internet is increasing. Recorded 47.2 percent of users accessing the Internet from their mobile phones. While as many as 46.4 percent of home Internet network access using broadband technology (broadband).

In the future, mobile Internet usage also predicted increased. Because the mobile internet rates from year to year is getting cheaper.

ITU recorded an average rate of mobile internet is now only 14 per cent of GNP compared to 29 percent in 2008. In contrast, the rate for broadband networks is increasingly expensive.

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