
By 2016, There Will Be an Astonishing 2.5 Internet Connections for Everyone on Earth
Thanks to the boom in handheld devices like tablets and smartphones, a new survey from Cisco Systems finds that by 2016, there will be almost 19 billion business and consumer internet connections — or 2.5 such connections for every person on earth.




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