Internet Users Top Two Billion – ITU

The United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU) says that the number of Internet users worldwide has reached the two billion mark.

ITU’s Hamadoun Toure, points out that, "At the beginning of the year 2000 there were only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users."

Toure further says that the latest data posted online by the ITU show that the estimates number of Internet users reached 2.08 billion by the end of 2010, compared to 1.86 billion a year earlier.

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