Looming gap in broadband speed, quality worldwide

UN report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has found that the number of active worldwide mobile broadband subscriptions increased in 2010, reaching 872 million, up from 531 million in 2009, according to an AFP report.

However, there is a huge disparity in the availability of mobile Internet in rich and poor countries. While in the rich ones, almost every second person has a high-speed mobile subscription, in poor countries, it is just one in every 20 people, said the report.

"A new digital divide is unfolding between those with high-speed capacity, quality, access - as is the case in many high-income countries - and those with lower speed capacity, quality, access, as in the case in many low- income countries," said Brahima Sanou, director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau.

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