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Mar 7, 2002 One-half billion homes now online
Nielsen/NetRatings said some 498 million people could surf the Web from home by the end of 2001, a jump of 5.1 percent from the figure in July-September.
People in Asia continued to hook up faster than anywhere else, with home Web access growing 5.6 percent in the last three months of the year from the previous quarter. Europeans were next, with connections up 4.9 percent, followed by computer users in Latin America and the United States, which had respective growth rates of 3.3 and 3.5 percent.

North America continued to have the largest share of the global Internet audience at 40 percent. Europe, the Middle East and Africa accounted for 27 percent and Asia 22 percent. --Reuters