Trends in Internet Infrastructure Development and Online Health Use in China: 10-Year Descriptive Longitudinal Study Background: Despite the rapid expansion of internet infrastructure and digital health initiatives in China, there remains a lack of longitudinal, nationally representative analyses that track the concurrent development of general internet access and the specific adoption of online health services over the past decade. Understanding these parallel trends is crucial for evaluating the reach and equity of the ongoing digital health transformation. Objective: The aim of this study was to describe decade-long trends in internet infrastructure development and online health service adoption in China through a comprehensive secondary analysis of nationally representative, publicly available survey data from 2014 to 2025. Methods: Data were retrieved from the official website of the China Internet Network Information Center for the period from June 2014 to June 2025. The study was conducted in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The participants were citizens aged 6 years and older who had a telephone or mobile phone. The China Internet Network Information Center conducted a stratified 2-stage sampling survey using a computer-aided telephone access system. Results: From 2014 to 2025, an increasing trend was observed in the number of internet users and the internet penetration rate in China. It also showed an upward trend in the number of internet users, both in urban and rural areas. A consistent increasing trend was detected in the number of mobile internet users. In contrast, desktops and laptops showed a declining trend. The number of online health users in China showed a V-shaped change from 2020 to 2025. In June 2025, the total number of online medical users reached approximately 393 million, representing 35% of all internet users. Conclusions: This decade-long observational study demonstrates sustained and significant growth in internet access across China, accompanied by a substantial rise in online health service adoption. A notable V-shaped trajectory in online health use emerged after 2020, indicative of a rapid #covid19 pandemic–driven acceleration followed by market consolidation. The converging trends of near-universal smartphone-based access and the massive popularity of mobile-centric services, such as short videos, have fundamentally reshaped the digital landscape. Consequently, the findings suggest that for digital health strategies to achieve broad impact, policymakers and health care providers could consider prioritizing the integration of health promotion and services into existing high-penetration mobile platforms and communication formats that the population already uses daily.

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It's wild how critical this invisible infrastructure is, right? We rely on it constantly, yet rarely think about it. What other 'invisible' tech do you think we take for granted daily?

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Where in the world is IPinfo? This time, we caught the sunset along the Adriatic. From coastal cities to major metros, every new point of presence helps us better measure the internet.

If you could add a city to our global map of PoPs, where would it be?

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Meta's 2Africa cable stalled in Persian Gulf as Iran war forces tech to rethink infrastructure Submarine cable contractor declares force majeure as Persian Gulf conflict halts installation work on Meta's landmark 2Africa internet project.

Meta's 2Africa cable stalled in Persian Gulf as Iran war forces tech to rethink infrastructure

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Inside the Cloud: What Really Happens in a Data Center Find out how data centers operate and why they are crucial for modern communication and information storage.

Your photos, files, and AI tools all live in the same kind of place: a data center. Step inside the cloud and see how it works.
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We’ve added a new PoP in Cambridge 🇬🇧
More local measurement, stronger validation in a key research and tech region.

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Catch us at CloudFest, March 23-26th in Europa-Park, Germany!

Our Head of Sales, Virgil, will be on site and is looking forward to connecting with the Internet infrastructure community!

Drop a comment if we can expect to see you there!

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2/4 The 2026 cohort will support up to 300 practitioners across eligible Asia Pacific economies, building practical, job-relevant skills that strengthen local Internet ecosystems.
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1/2 The first regional Internet Enablers Award has been presented to Gaurab Raj Upadhaya. Through our partnership with SANOG, we recognise leaders strengthening Internet infrastructure and technical communities across Asia Pacific.
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In Q4 2025, we expanded ProbeNet, our internet measurement platform, to deepen coverage, add redundancy, and diversify infrastructure where measurement matters most.

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​​Let’s raise a glass to our newest PoP in Bordeaux 🇫🇷🍷

Strengthening our coverage in Western Europe with more accurate, regionally grounded IP data.

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Accurate IP data depends on where and how you measure the internet.

With a new ProbeNet PoP in Harare, we improve signal quality and reduce regional blind spots across Southern Africa.

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New Episode! - How the Internet Actually Moves

This week:
🧠 Data packets explained
📇 DNS as internet phonebook
📡 IP addresses and routing
🧷 Fixing flaky home networks

🎧: tylerwoodward.me

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RECORDING – NYC Mesh 2025 Year End Review VIDEO | AUDIO | RECAP |  ARCHIVE | PERMALINK On December 16, 2025, NYC Mesh convened its final monthly org meeting of 2025. Matt Boyd hosted a “year in review” presentation of the diffe…

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🚨 Cloudflare Outage
A config error in Cloudflare’s bot-management system temporarily took down sites like X, ChatGPT, and Canva.
Not a cyberattack issue resolved.

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Cloudflare Outage Exposes Internet's Fragile Infrastructure as Major Sites Go Dark

Cloudflare's outage took down 20% of the web. A single config file crash highlights the internet's centralization risk.
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The outage truly showed how interconnected we are. Even monitoring tools and Cloudflare's own status page went down! Users initially panicked, thinking their own changes broke things, before realizing it was a global incident. #InternetInfrastructure 2/6

Cloudflare Outage Explained And What To Learn Cloudflare outage explained: what caused it, how it was fixed, and why having a secondary DNS provider can protect against future disruptions.

When Cloudflare Falters: How One Outage Rippled Across the Web by @carlostorresit.bsky.social
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Cloudflare is having a rough morning and the Global Network seems to be wobbling. Days like this remind me how much of the internet quietly leans on a handful of services to stay upright.

It is a good time to check your own fallback plans.

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@moreperfectunion.bsky.social | More Perfect Union: "Oracle: The Company That Knows Everything You Do" | #GabbieSpielberg #TheClassRoom #LarryEllison #DigitalLandlord #TikTok #NSA #SurveillanceState #InternetInfrastructure #AI #Monopoly #LicenseSoftware #Neoliberalism
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Amazon Web Services outage underlines vulnerability of web-based society Companies and governments assume we will always have access to the web these days

Major AWS outage today shows how vulnerable our web-based society has become. When one cloud provider goes down, thousands of sites go with it.

Time to rethink centralized infrastructure?

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AWS Outage Knocks Global Apps, Banking Services Offline A widespread outage affecting popular applications and websites globally highlighted the critical reliance of modern digital services on a few major cloud

AWS Outage Knocks Global Apps, Banking Services Offline

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DE-CIX expands Malaysian footprint with NTT Data partnership DE-CIX Malaysia has activated its interconnection platform at NTT Data Cyberjaya, adding peering, cloud on ramps and VPNIs for immediate use.

DE-CIX expands Malaysian footprint with NTT Data partnership

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Ever wondered how IPinfo builds its data?
Most people think IP data is just scraped or stitched together. Ours is measured.

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