Only 6.9 percent of households in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have a computer. Refugee camps have the lowest number, just 2,554. All Palestinian ISPs must go through an Israeli service provider. Internet bandwidth ranges from 128 K to 768 K. Palestinian ISPs have an estimated 8000 clients, representing individual, institutional and corporate customers. The actual number of Palestinians who use the Internet is much higher, however.
All universities have Internet access, as do several high schools.
These cafes are crowded at all hours of the day and night. Many Palestinian organizations use the web in an impressive manner and have expanded their cyber-presence over the last 12 months. Many reports and publications of these organizations are also online. The WWW affords crucial access to alternative information not found in the mainstream media. It has also engendered a qualitative shift in the nature of that information.