2 Chinese ISPs Serve 20% of World Broadband Users 110
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from the easier-to-choke-down-on dept.
from the easier-to-choke-down-on dept.
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If you need a reminder of just how big China is—and just how important the Internet has become there—consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband subscribers in the entire world and both companies continue to grow, even as growth slows significantly in more developed markets. Every other ISP trails dramatically. Japan's NTT comes in third with 17 million subscribers, and all US providers are smaller still. 'The gap between the top two operators and the world's remaining broadband service providers will continue to grow rapidly,' said TeleGeography Research Director Tania Harvey. 'Aside from the two Chinese companies, all of the top ten broadband ISPs operate in mature markets, with high levels of broadband penetration and rapidly slowing subscriber growth.'"
And they only get 20% of the internet? (Score:5, Funny)
Pfff (Score:5, Funny)
I bet if they deregulate they could get that down to just one ISP.
Re:Define broadband (Score:2, Funny)
Broadband is faster than dialup.
Re:Define broadband (Score:5, Funny)
Broadband is faster than dialup.
You'll go far with definitions like that.
Impossible! (Score:3, Funny)
The numbers simply don't add up:
-We know Chinese ISP's block all interesting content like pr0n.
-We know at least 95% of internet users browse pr0n almost daily.
So how can this be? :)
I KNEW it! (Score:3, Funny)
People have always tried to tell me that spam is automatically generated, but I KNEW BETTER! I knew, deep down in my soul that it was really millions of Chinese peasants, hooked up to TTY machines, flooding teh intarwebz with router clogging texts and Bayesian fooling, poorly constructed English non-sense.