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Last Updated : May 18 2015 | 12:03 AM IST
COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA
  • 1.75 billion smartphone owners can no longer use their phones
  • Email users worldwide can't send and receive 182 billion messages
  • 4.9 million Skype users unable to spend two billion minutes using the IM and video calling apps
  • Online networkers can't share over 500 million tweets
  • 864 million Facebook users can't spend an average 39 minutes on the network

ENTERTAINMENT
Worldwide, 903.3 million payTV subscribers would lose access

E-COMMERCE
E-commerce retailers would lose $2 billion in sales. This could effect 244 million members on Amazon

ENERGY
The number of devices with cellular or satellite connectivity deployed in oil and gas applications worldwide is estimated to be 1.12 million by 2018

HEALTH
78% of office based physicians and 59% of hospitals in the US cannot access patients electronic records

FINANCE
The average cost of transacting using an online or mobile device is 56 cents, 59 cents at an ATM, compared to $3.97 with a bank teller

Source: NetApp

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First Published: May 18 2015 | 12:03 AM IST

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