Zedmo at StartupCampMontreal tomorrow!
Come check out Zedmo at StartupCamp Montreal. We’ll be there meeting greeting and demoing. This is a great event for the Montreal tech startup community, and it’s being organized and sponsored by BDC, BCF, EMBRASE, SAT, Microsoft, and bitHeads
95 million access internet exclusively through cellular
Dean Bubley at Disruptive Wireless has taken a stab at the number of people globally connecting to the internet through all access options: cellular, wired, WiFi, and combinations of all three. The results? Out of 1.295B people connected, 700 million access the internet only through wired, 95 million access it through cellular only, and only 26 million have a mix of all three etc.
I’m dubious of the cellular-only numbers. 80 million connectors not touching a PC? This seems large, but the concept is fascinating. Certainly in developing countries this makes a worthwhile cultural observation — all the build-out of cellular connectivity over fixed connectivity. Why build fixed networks when you can skip them entirely!
How will these numbers look in 10 years? I’d venture to say that exactly contrary to my doubts above the cellular-only piece of the pie will grow the most. This has so many implications to how the web will be used and how it ought to be so much more geared for those little screens.