Internet Use in Asia to Explode by 2005
A new survey finds that the amount of people using the Internet is Asia will increase by 422 percent in the next six years and…
A new survey finds that the amount of people using the Internet is Asia will increase by 422 percent in the next six years and will number 228 million by 2005.Authors of the survey, London based Philips Group, estimate that there are currently 43.6 million Asians online and predict that by 2006, that figure could be 370 million, representing a 62 percent increase on current figures.While the majority of users will be concentrated in Japan for the next few years, by 2005, Internet use in China will surpass that in any other country in the region. By 2005, 37.6 percent of Asian Internet users will be Chinese, representing 85 million users.Another survey by IDC finds that despite the fact that Asian users would rather surf the Web in their native language, a growing number are going to English language Web sites.www.newsbytes.com