18 hotspots per 100 people...

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a recent report (pdf) by the uk office of communications (ofcom) gives a very thorough, global look into telecommunication technology use worldwide, and includes data from the us, uk, france, germany, italy, japan, and china, with additional data in some areas from the netherlands, poland, ireland, sweden, and spain.

the report found that 25 percent of the world's hotspots are in the us. the us also has the highest absolute number of hotspots in the world (about 26,000), but in relative terms, the uk and ireland both came out on top with approximately 18 hotspots per 100 people, compared to the 8.8 hotspots per 100 people in the us. china and italy had at the lowest number of hotspots, at 0.2 and 3 per 100 people, respectively.




http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061206-8369.html