A while ago a major client asked us to quantify broadband globally, and it has given us lots of data to point out disparities between how connected the world is. Of course China is way out on its own when it comes to WiFi, with 4.8 million hotspots, many of them owned by China Mobile, and delivered in partnership with coffee bars, restaurants and hotels throughout China. But China only ranks fourth in this table, bearing in mind that it has a population over 1.3 billion people, so some 281 people have to share each WiFi hotspot. This is perhaps why many of the countries mentioned above have focused on turning the humble home gateway into another kind of hotspot,…