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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><st1:country-region w:st="on"><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>China</span></font></st1:country-region><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> has
surpassed the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The
number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220 million as of February.<br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:blue'><a
href="http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0">http://mobileanalytics.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I wonder
how Americans are going to handle this little turn of events.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
population of 304 million people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>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?”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<br>
Regards, <br>
<br>
Dean Collins<br>
<a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net">dean@cognation.net</a><br>
Cognation Limited<br>
<st2:dial w:st="on">+1-212-203-4357</st2:dial><br>
<st2:dial w:st="on">+61-2-9016-4652</st2:dial> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Sydney</st1:City></st1:place> indial)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>P.S. In
case you are wondering <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>
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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font><font size=5
color="#666666" face=Georgia><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:#666666'>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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