With ad markets suffering amid the global economic downturn, observers in the newspaper industry are revisiting the controversial issue of charging online subscriptions for newspaper content.

在全球经济滑坡的形势下，广告市场正在遭受磨难，报业观察人士因此重新提到了一个曾引起争议的问题，即对报纸内容采用网络订阅模式。

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According to the International Telecommunication Union, broadband accounted for 56% of global Internet subscriptions by the end of 2005.

根据国际电信联盟的数据统计，截至2005年年底，宽带已经占据了网络用户的56%。

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The number of global mobile subscriptions will pass the 6 billion mark in February.

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This will deliver a major boost to global LTE subscriptions depending on which frequency bands and service providers it supports.

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Interestingly, the number of global mobile broadband subscriptions now outnumbers fixed ones by two to one, and mobile internet services showed the biggest growth rates in 2011: 40% worldwide and 78% in developing markets.

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