Telephones - fixed lines:
total subscriptions:
984,289,950
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
1
(2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
Telephones - mobile cellular:
total subscriptions:
7,806,142,681
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
105
(2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
Internet users:
total:
3,174,000,000
(2018 est.)
[see also: Internet users - total country ranks ]
percent of population:
43%
top ten countries by Internet usage (in millions): 730.7 China; 374.3 India; 246.8 United States; 122.8 Brazil; 116.6 Japan; 108.8 Russia; 73.3 Mexico; 72.3 Germany; 65.5 Indonesia; 61 United Kingdom
Broadband - fixed subscriptions:
total:
1,002,793,951
[see also: Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
14
(2017)
[see also: Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
Communications - note:
three major data centers - which provide colocation, telecommunications, cloud services, and content ecosystems - compete to be called the world's biggest in terms of physical space occupied:
no. 1. - a data farm in Langfang, Hebei Province, China, identified as the Range International Information Group, claims to be the largest with 585,000 sq m (6.3 million sq ft),
no. 2. - a data farm in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, known as the Switch SuperNAP data center, comes in second with over 325,000 sq m (3.5 million sq ft); it intends to expand to over 1.615 million sq m (17.4 million sq ft) by 2020,
no. 3. - a data farm in Ashburn, Virginia, USA, referred to as the DFT Data Center, is a transit point for 70% of the world's Internet traffic; it includes 150,000 sq m (1.6 million sq ft) spread out over six separate buildings
