Broadband Is Essential Service - Where's Canada?

The September 2010 issue of ITU's Statshot newsletter also reports that, "At least thirty countries have now included broadband as part of their universal access/service definition – meaning they consider broadband as a public service to which every citizen should have access." Canada is noticeably absent from the list:

Countries include: Albania, Andorra, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Finland, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, India, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, United States.

900 Million Mobile Broadband Subscriptions!

The September 2010 issue of ITU's Statshot newsletter reports that mobile broadband subscriptions will exceed 900 million globally by the end of 2010 -- up from 667 million at the beginning of the year and only 67 million four years earlier. Note that mobile connections now greatly outnumber wired connections worldwide.

(ITU: International Telecommunications Union)