ITU: 9.5% of World Population has Mobile Broadband Subscriptions

In its latest report "Measuring the Information Society 2010" (executive summary - here), the ITU publishes some interesting facts on the proliferation of internet and broadband services.

According to the ITU, by the end of 2009:

• 26% of world population (1.7B people) were using the Internet
   
• Internet penetration in developed countries reached 64%
   
• Internet penetration at developing countries reached only 18%
• There were an estimated 640M mobile and 490M fixed broadband  subscriptions.