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Nearly half a billion people around the world had access to the Internet from their homes by the end of last year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. The Internet measurement firm based in Honk Kong said some 498 million people could surf the web from home by the end of 2001, a jump of 5.1 per cent from the figure in July-September. People in Asia continued to hook up faster than anywhere else, with home access growing 5.6 per cent in the last three months of the year from the previous quarter.

Compiled by Seline Augustine

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