WITSA
Public Policy Working Group
Marilyn Cade
Director, AT&T Policy and Advocacy
Internet and E-Commerce
October 15, 2000
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The Internet is Shrinking the Globe
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One Global Economy
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Internet Growth
1969
4 HOST COMPUTERS
HOST COMPUTERS
100
90
80
70
Hosts in 60
DNS 50
(milions) 40
30
20
10
0
'93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00
First 4 hosts:
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)
University of Utah
Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Source: Internet Software Consortium
(http://www.isc.org/) July data
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Number of Internet hosts per 1000 population
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Internet Host Distribution by Region
0.3%
2.3%
22.4%
67.2%
Americas
Africa
Oceana
Europe
Asia
7.8%
Source: ITU Internet for Development, 1999
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Worldwide Internet Users
source: ETForecasts
(in millions)
250
200
150
100
2000
2005
source: Computer Industry Almanac
E. Europe
S./C. America
0
Asia-Pacific
50
W. Europe
NATION
Internet Users (millions)
United States
135.7
Japan
26.9
Germany
19.1
UK
17.9
China
15.8
Canada
15.2
South Korea
14.8
Italy
11.6
Brazil
10.6
France
9.0
Australia
8.1
Russia
6.6
Taiwan
6.5
Netherlands
5.4
Spain
5.2
Internet Users by Region
N. America
Top 15 Nations (YE00)
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Average Price for 20 hours of Internet Access
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Consumer Internet Activities
U.S.
GLOBAL
% of US On-line Households Using
E-Mail
E-Mail
Research
Education
Education
News
General Surfing
News
Shopping
Products/services
Product Information
Health Info
Government Information
Investment Info
Games
Shopping
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Source: Odyssey, L.P. 10/99
80%
90% 100%
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Internet Commerce Revenue By Region
Re gion
North America
Western Europe
$ Billions
1998
2003
CAGR
37.25 707.92
5.61 430.37
80%
138%
Japan
1.98
44.94
87%
Asia- Pacific
0.69
27.51
109%
Rest of World
1.41
53.02
107%
CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
Source: International Data Corp. 1999
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World Headline News
10/00 Study Expects Latin American
E-Commerce to Quadruple
10/00 Hong Kong's government plans to offer four
third-generation mobile-phone licenses in a special auction
10/00 NTT DoCoMo, giving cell-phone users access to the
Net, now boasts nearly 13 million subscribers in Japan.
9/00 Huawei Technologies Co. , primary supplier of
routers and switches in China, contracts with IBM for chips
9/00 Leading Austrailian bank, Westpac, says that 30,000
customers register for Internet banking every month
9/00 B2B e-commerce in vogue in Russia. Big projects
unveiled in oil, gas and steel sectors, and agriculture.
9/00 European Markets: Deutsche Banc Introduces Site
to Provide One-Stop Trading.
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E-Business-Readiness Rankings
Rank/ Country/ Bus. Environ. Ranking 2000-2004/ Connectivity Rating/ E-Bus. Readiness Ranking
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
US
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Netherlands
UK
Canada
Singapore
Hong Kong
Switzerland
Ireland
Denmark
Germany
France
Belgium
Australia
New Zealand
Austria
Italy
Israel
8.69
8.26
8.21
8
8.84
8.8
8.66
8.55
8.52
8.42
8.42
8.41
8.32
8.17
8.17
8.14
8.1
7.96
7.68
7.61
9
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
9
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
Japan
Spain
Chile
South Korea
Portugal
Argentina
Taiwan
Thailand
Poland
Hungary
Czech Republic
Malaysia
Greece
Mexico
Brazil
South Africa
Slovakia
Indonesia
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
7.43
8.01
7.85
7.3
7.59
7.22
8.13
7.27
7.15
7.09
7.07
6.91
6.9
6.78
6.37
6.25
6.19
6.16
6.06
6.02
8
7
7
7
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
Bulgaria
Venezuela
Romania
Russia
Ukraine
Philippines
Peru
Colombia
Egypt
India
China
Sri Lanka
Ecuador
Vietnam
Pakistan
Kazakhstan
Algeria
Iran
Nigeria
Iraq
5.61
5.51
5.45
5.16
4.79
6.72
6.36
6.13
6.1
5.97
5.88
5.87
5.32
5.3
4.94
5.07
4.9
3.6
4.54
2.07
5
5
5
5
5
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
3
2
2
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
Column 2: Out of 10: more than 8 = very good; 6.5-8.0 = good; 5.5-6.4 = moderate; 5.0-5.4 = poor; less than 5 = very poor
Column 3: from Pyramid Research, out of 10
Column 4: Average business-environment rating and connectivity rating, out of 10
Source: EIU ebusiness forum
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Total Registered Domain Names
30,918,466 as of 10/13/00
18.73M
ccTLDs
6.52M
.COM
5.67M
Other GTLDs
(.net, .org, .mil, .edu. .gov)
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Country Level Domains
Last Updated - Friday October 13, 2000 05:04:15
AM
ISO and other country level domains
.de
(Germany)
2,032,197
.za
(South Africa)
83,159
.uk
(United Kingdom)
2,228,560
.nz
(New Zealand)
76,166
.au
(Australia)
151,275
.fr
(France)
97,934
.dk
(Denmark)
224,493
.no
(Norway)
54,184
.ar
(Argentina)
356,630
.tw
(Taiwan)
36,542
.nl
(Netherlands)
449,960
.cn
(China)
32,076
.ch
(Switzerland)
112,912
.pl
(Poland)
73,124
.jp
(Japan)
190,709
.be
(Belgium)
36,432
.br
(Brazil)
312,115
.mx
(Mexico)
31,884
.it
(Italy)
345,864
.es
(Spain)
26,188
.kr
(Korea)
339,929
.fi
(Finland)
25,294
.ca
(Canada)
93,330
.ie
(Ireland)
17,130
.at
(Austria)
136,258
.pt
(Portugal)
13,060
.se
(Sweden)
53,023
.lu
(Luxembourg)
4,794
.nu
(Niue)
61,314
.is
(Iceland)
4,978
Total ISO
Domains
6,515,598
Source: http://www.domainstats.com/
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“Local” is Key
Local identity and
brand awareness still
matter in the global
Internet.
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The Internet is Big…REALLY BIG
• The Internet has become a critical global
information and communication infrastructure
for:




consumers
business
government
non-profits
• A frequent question: Who should regulate the
Internet?
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The Right Question
How should technical
management
of the Internet be done?
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