LJ Index

  1. Number of hours per day wasted on misuse of office technology by the average British worker: 1.17
  2. Number of British office hours wasted per day by communications technologies not being used to good effect: 1.63
  3. Number of British office worker minutes per day spent chasing responses to urgent emails: 42
  4. Minimum Linux percentage of Dell enterprise hardware sales: 25
  5. Minumum number of Unix-to-Linux migrations managed by Dell Service: 500
  6. Minimum percentage of Red Hat service calls to Dell handled without involving Red Hat: 90
  7. Thousands of desktops migrated to Linux (SUSE, KDE) by the Regional Tax Office in Lower Saxony, Germany: 12
  8. Peak number of desktops migrated per day by the Lower Saxony tax office: 300
  9. Miniumum number of desktops switched to Linux in Schwäbish Hall, Germany: 400
  10. Number of desktops planned for switching to Linux in Mannheim, Germany: 3700
  11. Number of servers planned for switching to Linux in Mannheim: 110
  12. Percentage of local German authorities using open source software: 90
  13. Millions of Internet users in India: 2005: 38.5 million
  14. Thousands of Internet cafes in India: 105
  15. Millions of U.S. households promised connection by symmetrial fiber-based 45MB/s broadband by 2006: 86
  16. Billions of dollars collected by carriers in higher phone rates and tax perks, toward promised fiber broadband deployment: 200
  17. Numberof operating local or regional fiber-to-the-home deployments in the U.S., as of April 2006: 936
  18. Millions of U.S. homes served by those deployments as of April 2006: 4
  19. Number of non-RBOC (phone company) fiber-to-the-home deployments: 580
  20. Number of RBOC (phone company) fiber-to-the-home deployments: 376

1-3, ntl Incorporated; 4-6, CNet; 7-12, ZDNet UK; 13, Hindustan Times, via NeonCarrot.co.uk., 14, ConSu; Nov 2005, via NeonCarrot.co.uk; 15-16, TeleTruth.org; 17-20, RVAllc.com and broadbandproperties.com

Sources:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/2006/06/06.html#a835

http://ir.telewest.co.uk/phoenix.zhtml?c=76808&p=irol-newsArticle&t=Regular&id=858966&

http://news.com.com/For+Dell,+industry+standard+now+includes+Linux/2100-7344_3-6081793.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39274196,00.htm

http://www.newnetworks.com/FTCcomplaintSBCVerizon.htm

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0601/

http://www.neoncarrot.co.uk/h_aboutindia/india_telecom_stats.html

http://teletruth.org

http://www.broadbandproperties.com/2006issues/april06issues/render_april.pdf

http://broadbandproperties.com