Web creator wants free access for all


LONDON: THE inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, used his keynote at the Nokia World conference to suggest that everyone in the world should be provided with a low-bandwidth connection by default.

He said that currently only 20% of the world’s population is on the Web and that it is possible to get the remaining 80% online via mobile devices, thanks to the wide reach of cellular networks.

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