[asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

[Matt Watson]

What Godaddy.com has told you is more or less correct.

Its not their fault that Chinese visitors cannot hit your pages... the internet is China is highly censored, and quite often they firewall even very large big name sites like BBC news.  Typically they block sites that have any type discuss any type of political matters that might be going on in China, or blog sites where chinese citizens might "speak out".  I'm not saying your site is one of these, but if they are infact doing it by IP address, its perfectly possible that your site just happens to be hosted on the same IP (or even IP block) as a site they decided to firewall - or perhaps a site used to occupy the same address space as you and they just haven't noticed its no longer there and un-firewalled it.

And yes, godaddy.com cannot guarentee that if you change IP addresses that the new one will work... just like they can't guarentee that myself or any visitors to my home will be able to access your website from my internet connection... i could firewall IPs from my home just like the chinese government can firewall sites from all of their citizens.  There is a chance that changing IPs will make it work, but theres also a chance the new IP will be firewalled too...

Just google for "Great Firewall of China"

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Matt

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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now     220 million users in China

The statistics you write of maybe true but there is a small downside to this.  Presently, our website can not be seen in China and we are hosted by Godaddy.com<http://Godaddy.com>.  The explanation we receive more than three times is "China is blocking a number of IP addresses and there is nothing they can do!"  This is the kicker we work with a Federal Organization here in USA who is also hosting at Godaddy.com<http://Godaddy.com> and their website can be seen.  The only difference is this ogranization is using a Class A static IP address.  Godaddy.com<http://Godaddy.com> can not guarantee if changing to a static IP address this situation will change.  One more thing, Godaddy.com<http://Godaddy.com> can be seen in China because their website is hosted on a separate corporate server.

This is not a gripe but a realty and we are a digium select reseller.  There is a consultant in China we work with and our website is translated in Mandarin.  If anyone has a proposed solution for this we would greatly appreciate the dialogue.

Regards,

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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users -
now 220 million users in China
From: "Dean Collins" <Dean at cognation.net>
Date: Sat, May 03, 2008 11:27 am
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium<mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium>.com>

China has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.

The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220 million as of February.
<http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0>http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0




I wonder how Americans are going to handle this little turn of events.

What is really interesting in the rest of the article it discusses how the percentage of penetration for china is 17% of it's 1.3 Billion population versus 71% penetration of the USA's population of 304 million people.

So with China expected to increase another 13 million users this month alone (March 2008) to 233 million users how long before there are more people using the internet in China than the entire population of the USA (I'm guessing about 7 months so about the end of this year).

Does anyone in the Asterisk community have a good website for getting accurate voip minutes or some other field of reference for how successful voip penetration is in the respective countries? Would be interesting to see what countries are leading Voip implementation penetration regardless of whether it is Asterisk or Avaya etc etc.

I know everyone freaked when Trixbox was collecting stats but I think it would be great for someone to write a small ‘anonymous collection module’ that an Asterisk sys-admin could download and install on their asterisk server which uploaded the stats to a community website.

Even if it just collected number of new installations globally this would be a huge help to people selling asterisk to their customers who continually ask “I’ve heard about this Asterisk open source stuff but how many are there installed globally anyway?”




Regards,

Dean Collins
<mailto:dean at cognation.net>dean at cognation.net<mailto:dean at cognation.net>
Cognation Limited
+1-212-203-4357
+61-2-9016-4652 (Sydney indial)
P.S. In case you are wondering Australia has a piddling little 15m users but this is against a pop of only 20.5m so the Internet penetration is actually higher than the USA.
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