Internet Statistics

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, or sent by loud whistles, for example. In the modern age of electricity and electronics, telecommunications now also includes the use of electrical devices such as telegraphs, telephones, and teleprinters, the use of radio and microwave communications, as well as fiber optics and their associated electronics, plus the use of the orbiting satellites and the Internet ( Source: wikipedia, free encyclopedia)

Statistics
Statistics show that in the classment of Internet users all around the world in 2011, Africa takes the 5th place (5,7%) below Asia (44%), Europe (22,7%), North America (13%) and Latin America/Caribbean (10,3%) and above Middle East (3,3%) and Oceania/Australia (1%).
Among Afrcican countries, Nigeria is the biggest user of Internet with 37 % of total users. Benin is far behind with 0,2 % of total users.

Network infrastructure statistics in Benin

Mobile phone subscribers (2008)	3,435,000.0
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers (per 100 people) (2007)	24.0
Personal computers (per 100 people) (2007)	0.7
Internet users (per 100 people) (2008)	1.8

(Source: http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/web/guest/country/statistics/tags/benin)

The overall of those statistics show that despite its considerable advances Benin has more to do in the field of telephony and Internet access.