[gaia] dramatic slowdown in global growth of internet access

Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk> Thu, 18 October 2018 13:13 UTC

Return-Path: <arjuna.sathiaseelan@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: gaia@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: gaia@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4900A130DCB for <gaia@ietfa.amsl.com>; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:13:58 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -1.4
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ddSJuG6Gm9fN for <gaia@ietfa.amsl.com>; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:13:57 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail-qk1-f169.google.com (mail-qk1-f169.google.com [209.85.222.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0C4B12D4EE for <gaia@irtf.org>; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by mail-qk1-f169.google.com with SMTP id 23-v6so18664939qkh.8 for <gaia@irtf.org>; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=nC/BFNw58IkDv2fcUOVLNKvPp6wklD5QxaW/ZD08OJ4=; b=PuJbUgo84fKpuAmucn/1Ajzm8mbz1ITQnK9mhOf9+E9wj5yKtj5OPy0IhTO1Sef/+m 45XfVQid6cd/VV2vC1JNiwRwqZtGRftvki2BSa6HqcWvbGZy2r0l4QPqQxOIp6sDnXU+ ml5KD2keC/EhZRUdfGhsJ267dd+V/SnEG+FZs2meuEfrp1z4b+8mQId00919FedgQeEO kz0kcOsoUSBMhtG4AK8YAPkcwDM7Utoy9msLLBVRfwqn+Bi7WzjlTZA/joHgcO14zhhw P0l/FjUrOka+P931/SvnVhK0+Lp1lOvyECe5TiR7MfmNOQpO7f5W6ZnTMR1PFAm7LPSp BsIQ==
X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfogQ0J3C08ub6e/mVweahxBkCPrzsLoxgog5n1s9mIcJeyBHoViB jnlAIQIwnxLwKDOLF/KjOnVIIGMKMfUr4dVmbl0XXgTG
X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV62p7S+l+xGjNSZbHK5Nsa1aUN8zz1zotLrNKYnUR0nxAo5bsMkV6iVmg+2RFaVxhqH4Rjo/CrfKQCKYB+JZFRc=
X-Received: by 2002:a37:6b84:: with SMTP id g126-v6mr12951392qkc.193.1539868432707; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:13:52 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:13:41 +0100
Message-ID: <CAPaG1Anku_AiAWuegPJp4HNZrU0b_LzVymbPFK_vovMbdOrK1w@mail.gmail.com>
To: gaia <gaia@irtf.org>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000eeb5490578808e9b"
Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/gaia/4VW4YY4wjXLlerA0UPOMjNPeCpw>
Subject: [gaia] dramatic slowdown in global growth of internet access
X-BeenThere: gaia@irtf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29
Precedence: list
List-Id: Global Access to the Internet for All <gaia.irtf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.irtf.org/mailman/options/gaia>, <mailto:gaia-request@irtf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/gaia/>
List-Post: <mailto:gaia@irtf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gaia-request@irtf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia>, <mailto:gaia-request@irtf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:13:58 -0000

Report showing dramatic decline in internet access growth suggests digital
revolution will remain a distant dream for billions of people:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/18/exclusive-dramatic-slowdown-in-global-growth-of-the-internet?CMP=twt_gu--

Arjuna Sathiaseelan | http://sathiaseelan.org