The American government had instituted a broadband stimulus funding to bridge the digital divide between the haves and have-nots. But is the supply sufficient to meet the demand? Here are some statistics Number of American households without internet access in 2008 : 58 million Number of American households with no internet in 2014 : 40 [...]

Here is a comprehensive list of broadband penetration as percentage of total households across Europe for 2009. The study about internet usage was conducted by Eurostat and you may download the abstract here (PDF) Austria : 58% Belgium : 63% Bulgaria : 26% Croatia : 39% Cyprus : 47% Czech : 49% Denmark : 76% [...]

Do dial-up internet connections still exist? Yes, they do and they are not going away anytime soon. The number of dial up connections out of total internet households in US are in single digit percentages and shall continue to see a decline as we move ahead. Here are the percentage of American households with dial [...]

An exclusive iPhone deal has been a double-edged sword for carriers like AT&T and O2. While the craze for iPhone meant that their customer base grew at a terrific pace, it also meant increased data consumption because of smartphone users have turned out to be voracious consumers of data. Here is how the wirless internet [...]

Cisco recently studies 20 ISPs around the world to study the average internet consumption among the global households. The study shows some interesting results: Average data consumed per household : 11.4GB per month 10% of the internet users consume 60% of the bandwidth 1% of the web users consume 20% of the internet bandwidth Data [...]

In a study across the million busiest websites on the internet for the month of October 2009, here are the market share of the different web server developers Apache : 67.05% Microsoft : 17.82% nginx : 3.76% Google : 1.99%

DSL has been king for quite sometime in the broadband market and continues to remain so. Here are the market shares of the various broadband infrastructure technologies available worldwide: DSL : 64% Cable : 21% Fiber : 13% Wireless : 1% Satellite : 1%

Home networks are growing slow in the USA, but this can still be an opportunity. Here are some excerpts from a Forrester report: American Households with home networks : 39.3 million (33%) Year on Year growth : 5% Projected number of households with home networks by 2013 : 62.9 million Wireless home networks as percentage [...]

There has been a 9% growth in the total number of wi-fi hotspots worldwide. Here are the top five countries in terms of the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots: 1. USA : 67,420 2. China : 28,678 3. UK : 27,459 4. France : 25,619 5. Russia : 14,499

How desperate are you to access internet while on board? Will you skip your meal to have internet access? 71% would seemingly do so. Will you defer your travel by one day to get on a flight with in-flight Wi-fi? 55% of the people would seemingly do so. And what do business travelers want to [...]