In late in 2005, the world reached a milestone as Internet access became available to one billion people worldwide. Approximately 845 million use it regularly.
Asia-Pacific is the largest broadband region containing nearly 40% of the world’s broadband households. Latin America was the fastest growing broadband region, with 70% subscriber growth.
Source: Worldwide Online Access: 2004-2010 (see http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003975 for more information).