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Internet Connectivity Report from the Office of National Statistics

This inquiry surveys a panel of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), collecting data on the number and type of active Internet subscriptions. Publication of the index commenced in 2001. The publication shows the change in the overall level of connections to the Internet and also for dial-up and broadband connections separately

A NetValue survey compares online households’ Internet usage in Europe and in the US:

Predictions

Market research firm Cahners predicts

By 2004, the wireless networking market will grow to $2.2 billion from $771 million in 2000, driven primarily by demand from business professionals

Forrester Research in its report "The New Business Portals" estimate that

By 2004 businesses will be providing Internet access to 200 million workers world-wide.

According to an IDC report "The Global Market Forecast for Internet Usage and Commerce"

	320 million people will have access to the web by 2002
	The number of devices used to access the web will increase from 78.8 million to 515 million over same period
	50% of devices used to access web will be non-PC devices by 2002. (97% of web access devices were PCs in 1997)

In a report from Frost & Sullivan, they predict that:

	The value of the European e-commerce market is set to soar from $35.8 million in 1997 to $8.07 billion in 2004
	Consumer Internet users will grow from 9.9 million to 44.9 million in the same period.

According to Jupiter Communications:

	Global revenues from selling music online are expected to grow fifteen fold from $88 Million in 1998 to $1.4 Billion by 2002.
	This will by then represent 8% of total music sales in the US

Internet timeline 

1969		Start of Internet as academic network
1989		World Wide Web proposed
1991		World Wide Web available
1993		Mosaic debuts
		130 websites world-wide
1994		Netscape created / Navigator 1.0 released
1995		Amazon.com begins selling books online
		Microsoft unveils Internet strategy
		First search on Yahoo!
		First auction on eBay
		First official Internet "wiretap" in the US results in arrest of three individuals for illegally manufacturing and selling cell phone cloning equipment
1997		Toyota's website surpasses its 800 telephone number in generating sales leads
		Dell web site generating $2million a day in US
1998		$6 billion web sales forecast
		2,000,000 websites world-wide
		40,000,000 email addresses in use
		AOL signed up their 500,000th subscriber in the UK
		CompuServe had 400,000 subscribers in the UK
		Dixons announced that it signed up 475,000 subscribers in the UK just eight weeks after launch. The company claimed that 40 per cent of these people were newcomers to the Net.
		Transatlantic data calls overtake voice calls  - it is also thought that more e-mails are sent than letters in the post
		Virgin Net estimated ad revenues of more than £2 million for 1998 thanks to a swathe of promotional and sponsorship deals, such as with Amazon.co.uk
		AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion
1999		First online university opens
2000		In January, Freeserve reaches 2.8 million subscribers.
		Oftel report that 14 million people in the UK access the Internet from home.
		Over 1 billion SMS messages were sent in Europe during the month of February
		European Internet population passes 100 million
		Domain-name registrations reach 30 million
		The number of web pages grows by 5 million a day
		30 million domain names in use