{"id":18007,"date":"2011-01-26T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:57:00","slug":"two-billion-internet-users-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/18007-two-billion-internet-users-worldwide.html","title":{"rendered":"Two billion Internet users worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the beginning of the year 2000 there only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the beginning of this year 2011 those numbers have mushroomed to over five billion mobile users and two billion subscribers to the Internet,&#8221; Toure added.<\/p>\n<p>And the number of mobile phone subscriptions also reached the symbolic threshold of five billion, the secretary general of the UN&#8217;s International Telecommunictaions Union (ITU) told journalists in a separate announcement.<\/p>\n<p>An ITU statistician told AFP that the figure for mobile telephones related to subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/305695-Internet-users-worldwide-number-2-billion\" title=\"Two billion Internet users worldwide\"><strong>Two billion Internet users worldwide<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Internet users worldwide has reached the two billion mark, the head of the UN&#039;s telecommunications agency, Hamadoun Toure, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}