Internet access is astonishingly expensive in some parts of the world. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that fixed broadband costs 30 percent of the average monthly wage within the developing world. To address this, Google, Facebook, USAID and a host of […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a slew of partners just launched Internet.org to bring digital connectivity to the world. According to a press release, the founding members of the initiative include Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung. These […]
There are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions today. But that number “will soon exceed that of the human population,” according to a new World Bank report. It was only 12 years ago that there were less than 1 billion mobile […]
