LJ Index

  1. $billions cable operators will spend by 2012 improving digital network capacity: 80
  2. $Millions quoted in the fiber-based build-out of a San Francisco municipal high-speed Internet utility: 500
  3. Percentage rate of increase in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriptions in Japan: 88
  4. Millions of Japanese FTTH subscriptions in March 2005: 5.4
  5. Effective radiated power in watts of KRUU "open source radio": 100
  6. Range in miles of KRUU's city-grade signal: 4
  7. Number of planets served by KRUU's live Web stream: 1
  8. Total dollars paid to AT&T by an for continuous use of a push-button phone since the 1960s by an 88-year-old: 7500
  9. Millions of cars at the end of 2006: 800
  10. Millions of PCs at the end of 2006: 850
  11. Billions of Internet connections at the end of 2006: 1.1
  12. Billions of credit cards at the end of 2006: 1.4
  13. Billions of TVs at the end of 2006: 1.5
  14. Billions of cell phones at the end of 2006: 2.7
  15. Billions of cell phones in use by September 2006: 2.5
  16. Millions of cell phones added in the prior year: 484
  17. Percentage of new cell phones added in Asia: 41
  18. Billions of cell phones expected by the end of 2007: 3
  19. Projected billions in annual cell phone shipments in 2008: 1
  20. Estimated billions of human beings in July 2006: 6.525170264

Sources: 1, ABI Research; 2, Fiber Optics for Government and Public Broadband: A Feasibility Study Prepared for the City and County of San Francisco, January 2007, by Communications Engineering & Analysis for the Public Interest.; 3-4, Broadband Properties, December 2006; 5, fccinfo.com; 6, radio-locator.com; 7, KRUU; 8, The Consumerist; 9-14, Tomi T Ahonen and Alan Moore in Communities Dominate Brands; 15-18,Wireless Intelligence, via Cellular News; 19, Gartner via windowsfordevices.com; 20, CIA's World Factbook.

http://www.abiresearch.com/abiprdisplay.jsp?pressid=792

http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/site/uploadedfiles/dtis/tech_connect/SFFiberFeasibility.pdf

http://consumerist.com/consumer/at%26t/att-leases-pushbutton-phone-for-over-7500-to-elderly-236217.php

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/19223.php

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/01/putting_27_bill.html

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS5566717572.html

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/xx.html