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In 2019, the United States ranked 3rd in the world for the number of internet users (behind China and India), with 312.32 million users. As of 2019, 90% of adults in America use the internet, either irregularly or frequently.
Today, over 90 percent of Americans have access to the internet, many of whom could no longer imagine a life without it.
Key findings: Number of US households without internet
27.6 million (22.5%) of US households don’t have home internet. Over a quarter million (265,331) households use dial-up internet at home. Utah, Colorado, and California are the most-connected states.
How many people use the internet? As of January 2021 there were 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide – 59.5 percent of the global population. Of this total, 92.6 percent (4.32 billion) accessed the internet via mobile devices.
Characteristic | Number of disconnected people in millions |
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Nigeria | 118.06 |
Bangladesh | 97.43 |
Indonesia | 96.71 |
Ethiopia | 92.39 |
Green Bank is in an area called the National Radio Quiet Zone. The Federal Communications Commission created the zone in 1958. It extends to other parts of West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. Some people call the Green Bank Telescope “the GBT.” That is short for “Great Big Thing.”
Roughly seven-in-ten rural Americans (72%) say they have a broadband internet connection at home, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, 2021.
Characteristic | World | Developed |
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2019 | 51.4% | 86.7% |
2018 | 49% | 84.9% |
2017 | 46.3% | 81.9% |
2016 | 43.9% | 81% |
The search engine giant has a market share of 95.45 percent in India and accounted for the majority of the global search engine market, ahead of other competitors such as Yahoo, Bing, Yandex and Baidu.
Internet access is not generally available in North Korea. Only some high-level officials are allowed to access the global internet. In most universities, a small number of strictly monitored computers are provided. Other citizens may get access only to the country’s national intranet, called Kwangmyong.
Cuba has its own state controlled intranet called national web.
Characteristic | Active users in millions |
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Active internet users | 298.8 |
Even though it is mere hours from Silicon Valley — Newcastle has the slowest internet in the country. It is one of the many rural communities across the nation on the edges of a digital divide that has been growing wider for decades.
A recent study by Broadband Now, an independent research group whose data is widely cited, found that 42 million Americans live in places where they cannot buy broadband internet service, most of them in rural areas.
Another company offering completely free internet service is FreedomPop. It boasts the world’s first 100% free mobile plan while also offering free wireless internet and free home broadband. Its free plans reach speeds up to only 1 Mbps, and it has low data caps, so it’s not for heavy internet users.
Internet service in many rural areas is provided over voiceband by 56k modem. … High-speed, wireless Internet service is becoming increasingly common in rural areas. Here, service providers deliver Internet service over radio-frequency via special radio-equipped antennas.
Only about 35 percent of the population in developing countries has access to the Internet (versus about 80 percent in advanced economies). Broadband has also become a foundation for smart infrastructure (e.g. Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Electric grids) that is facilitated by new wireless technologies.
India has the most YouTube users, estimated at 225 million. The United States follows, with 197 million.
500 million of those come from India, 180 million from China, and 130 million from the U.S. In June of 2020 TikTok was downloaded 87 million times worldwide (with 7.5 million of those coming from the U.S.). Monthly Active Users in the United States – TikTok now has over 130 million active users in the U.S.
Characteristic | Audience in millions |
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India | 180 |
United States | 170 |
Brazil | 110 |
Indonesia | 93 |
The Internet is available all over China, but not all of the Internet is available. Sites like Google’s and social media like Facebook are censored and blocked, needing technology like VPNs for access. Wi-Fi connections are quite common, and you can connect to them often in the same way as in the West.
North Korean citizens usually cannot freely travel around the country, let alone travel abroad. Emigration and immigration are strictly controlled. … This is because the North Korean government treats emigrants from the country as defectors.
Prostitution in North Korea is illegal and is not visible to visitors. Allegedly, a collection of women called the kippumjo provided sexual entertainment to high-ranking officials until 2011.
As of 2015 Internet access in Russia is available to businesses and to home users in various forms, including dial-up, cable, DSL, FTTH, mobile, wireless and satellite. … Internet in Russia is also sometimes called Runet, although that term mostly refers to the Russian-language Internet.
Company | Download Speed |
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Xfinity Internet » 4.3 out of 5 | 50 Mbps – 2,000 Mbps |
Mediacom Internet » 3.7 out of 5 | 60 Mbps – 1000 Mbps |
AT&T Internet » 4.1 out of 5 | 0.8 Mbps – 940 Mbps |
Verizon Internet » 4.1 out of 5 | 200 Mbps – 940 Mbps |