How big is the Internet?

Wed Aug 14 22:50:46 UTC 2013

On 8/14/2013 10:31 AM, Anthony Williams wrote:
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>
>   One segment is the number of people on the planet with a mobile device
> that can connect to the Internet? Throw in laptops, workstations,
> servers, routers, toasters, etc and the number starts to get pretty big.
>
>   The NSA will need some more hard drives.  lol
>
>
> ** Of the 6 billion cell phones in use, only around 1.1 billion of them
> are mobile-broadband devices. **
>
> http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/mobile-phone-world-population-2014

Do "we" (meaning y'all) even know the edges look like?

My elderly crackberry does internetish stuff like email and browsing and 
file transfers when there is no wiffy in sight.

So it either speaks TCP/IP with the towers (it might, I have no clue), 
or there is non-TCP/IP fabric in the skirts.

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