Here's the result from a few places - based on region and apps using latest(2009) data (where available).
| S.No. | Country | NS | IWS | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 253m | 298m | (density: 19%) [2006 figures: 103m] |
| 2 | US | 220m | 227m | (density: 72.5%) [2006 figures: 209m] |
| 3 | Japan | 94m | 94m | (density: 74%) [2006 figures: 86m] |
| 4 | Brazil | 67.5m | 67.5m | (density: 26% / 22.4%) [2006 figures: 13m] |
| 5 | India | 60m | 81m | (density: 4% / 7.1%) [2006 figures: 40m] |
| 6 | Germany | 52.5m | 55.2m | (density: 64% / 67%) [2006 figures: 50.6m] |
| 7 | UK | 43.2m | 43.2m | (density: 69% / 70.9%) [2006 figures: 37.6m] |
They estimate that in 3 years - China will outnumber US 3:1 and along with India - will become the big 3. Asian piece of the pie by 2012 - 490m
Top languages: Mandarin, English, Hindi, Portugese, Russian
Top apps:
Web - 45%
Email - 6% (78% spam)
P2P - 25%
Streaming - 8%
VOIP -3%
Top countries by penetration, according to Swivel are:
Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, Luxemborg, & US
(Apparently, when I publish the table it puts in a huge white space header. Its not there 'cuz of my code! Silly blogger!)
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I haven't seen that many pages in Hindi BTW :) The thing is, internet in India is amazingly overpriced - its CHEAPER to get a 2 MBPS in US than to to get a 512 KBPS in India. I don't see the net really taking off before govt forces reforms on ISPs. (Maybe a liberal dose of MRTPC or some other anti-cartelization law)
Valid point. My guess is that in one aspect about the Indian usage scene - is that most of the bandwidth that one takes - one actually uses it - p2p or whatever. Its actually getting slurped. I would think in US most of it ends up being under-utilized. This is just my gut feel and I'm probably wrong.
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