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Doubling Internet population – what next billion users might bring

December 19, 2007

Doubling Internet population – what next billion users might bring

As the world enters the second-billion-Internet-users phase, it should prepare itself for changes that this increase in online population would bring, Michael Geist writes on his webpage. The issues of booming Internet population were widely discussed during the second annual Internet Governance Forum last month, Michael says.
The new billion will reshape the internet, to suit their language, cultural and financial particularities, as they, in their vast majority, will most probably come from the developing world.
The global network will have to adapt itself to the demands of the next-decade users. As broadband might be less popular among the new users, out of financial reasons, the Internet services will have to adjust their offers. And the hardware manufacturers – come up with apparel that would fit the pockets of the newly-webs.
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