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Access Now's Transparency Reporting Index features a record of transparency reports from today’s leading internet companies and telcos. The data includes company name, company type, geographical location of company headquarters, first release date, frequency of publication, and the report's URL.
The index is downloadable as a CSV file.
Database with numerous economic and social indicators for Asian countries, including broadband internet subscribers, telephone lines, cellular phone subscriptions, information and communication technology expenditures, and percentage of schools connected to the internet.
The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC), the Regional Registry for Internet Number Resources serving the African Internet Community, provides statistics on IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and on AS numbers, both regionally and by country.
The Italian communications authority publishes every three months a brief report on the state of the telecoms market, including broadband and mobile internet connectivity. It also publishes reports on the state of the communications industry in Italy, including data on the state of the Internet.
This German joint industry committee, together with AGOF, has developed the Internet Media Analysis (IMA). It is also developing a program to measure web radio.
This source provides periodic reports since 2004 on Internet activity in Germany, including penetration, demographics, top-properties, etc.
This joint industry committee produces the Estudio General de Medios (EGM), the most comprehensive media measurement operation in Spain. This survey covers all media consumption, including the Internet. Though the complete results of the study are only available to member of the organization, summary results are published three times a year, and include internet penetration with basic socio-demographic variables.
Since 2008 Akamai publishes its quarterly State of the Internet Report, with information on online connectivity and cyber security trends and metrics, such as connection speeds, broadband adoption, mobile usage, outages, cyber attacks and security threats. It also offers connectivity visualizations.
This popular source, a subsidiary of Amazon, provides upon registration rankings of websites (global or by country) based on number of unique visitors and page views. For each site, the following information is available for free: ranking, audience geographical distribution, bounce rate, time on site, daily page views, referrers, owner information, and audience demographics. Besides the fact that it gathers information generated by users of Alexa’s toolbar, not much is known about the methodology Alexa uses to produce these figures
The Telecom Authority of Algeria posts many statistics about the number of broadband and mobile subscribers in Algeria and the number of subscribers for each of the three main broadband and mobile services. The authority also publishes annual reviews that provide qualitative and quantitative information on the nature of that year's internet service.
