BANGALORE, India — Google vice-president and chief Internet evangelist Vinton G. Cerf predicted Tuesday that mobile phones, not personal computers, will fuel growth of the worldwide Web, as countries like India snap up millions of handsets monthly.
From 50 million in 1997, the number of people who have logged onto the Internet has exploded to nearly 1.1 billion, Cerf, who is considered one of the founding fathers of the Internet, said.
Yet the Internet only reaches a sixth of the world’s population, Cerf told reporters during a visit to Bangalore, known as India’s Silicon Valley, where Google has a research and development facility.
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