Digital 7 is needed to maintain and expand connectivity, as well as how they can work together to share each other's experiences and to develop standards together. Citing a Cisco figure, the D5 expects over 50 billion internet connected devices to be in use around the world by 2020, with as many as dozens of each device in every household. To meet these needs, the UK government's focus will be on Machine to Machine technology, the Internet of Things and 5G mobile networks. In March 2014, they announced they will be investing £45 million in the Internet of Things. They have set
Online console gaming is part of the Xbox 360 to Xbox One backwards compatibility program). Additional services provided by these networks include the capability of buying additional games, online chatting, downloadable content, and game demos. The earliest experiments relating to online connectivity on game consoles were done as far back as the early 1980s. Dial-Up internet connectivity was made available through the use of special cartridges, along with an adapter, most notably the GameLine for the Atari 2600 and the PlayCable for the Intellivision. Services like these did not have multiplayer online gaming capability, but did allow users to download games from a