Mobile broadband surpasses fixed lines, says ITU

GENEVA - Mobile broadband subscriptions have overtaken fixed broadband subscribers, according to new data from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).Calling mobile cellular “the most rapidly adopted technology in history”, the report The World in 2009: ICT facts and figures estimates that there will be 4.6 billion subscriptions globally by the end of 2009. More than a quarter of the world’s population is on-line and using the Internet, but high-speed Internet growth in the developed world contrasts starkly with the state of play in the developing world. In Africa, for example, there is only one fixed broadband subscriber for every 1,000...