How many on the Net?
According to IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast, a quarter of the global population – that’s 1.4 billion people – will regularly use the internet during 2008. So it looks like that Internet thingy is here to say.
Looking at growth prospects, it is suggested that the number of Net users is set to jump to 1.9 billion over the next four years, bringing access to roughly 30% of the world’s population.
Net-enabled mobile devices will help drive the global online trend, surpassing the desktop PC as the primary means of accessing the internet by 2012 (I’m already accessing the Net on my iPhone as well as PC).
More information here.