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Internet host density - Internet/Web/Online Service Information - Column
The Internet lets smaller businesses that cannot afford international telecommunications cross borders and time zones to share information without the need for real-time data. Teledensity, a measure of the growth of communications infrastructure, is very strong in the US and developed world but limited in many other nations. The ITU introduced Internet host density as a complementary metric in 1995. Hosting services density indicates whether business-to-customer interaction over the Internet will work well in a particular situation. Companies can provide online catalogs, customer care, product literature and electronic commerce to distant consumers over the Internet at far less cost than a traditional call center. Internet host density is a metric for globalization and supports pervasive and robust business activity.See the full content of this document
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Hosting: count your servers.
Because the cost of international telecommunitions is often PROHIBITIVE FOR MANY SMALLER BUSINESSES, the INTERNET PROVIDES a way for these same companies TO CROSS INTERNATIONAL BORDERS and time zone in a none-real-time form of information sharing.
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