Birds-Eye.Net tracks events and predictions related to the broadband industry each year. Note that if no source is listed, the information came from multiple sources. For global broadband numbers check out our world telecom numbers spreadsheet.

Actual Events:

Advertising

Buyouts or Deals of Interest:

Financial Trends:

• Venture-backed investments in the second quarter of 1999 reached a record level of $7.7 billion.

Market Milestones:

• The Internet economy grew by 62 percent (to $524 billion) in 1999, with 650,000 new jobs created, bringing the total number of people employed in the industry to 2.5 million.
• Fourth quarter worldwide e-commerce revenue topped $10.53 billion.
• Consumers bought $3.5 billion in online airline tickets.

Product or Service Milestones

• Google reach 100,000 search queries a day, February 1999.
• In June 1999, there were 800 million Web pages, only 16% of which were indexed by the most robust search engine.
• Wireless users sent 3 billion messages a month.

Population Trends:

• 68 percent of US use the Internet.
• The daily volume of US online trades grew by 35% in first quarter of 1999, while total stock market trading volume was up just 4.9%.
• One in ten home Internet US users shopped online the week of December 6, 1999, spending a total of $900 million.
• 62% of US users planned trips online in 1999, compared with 48% in 1998.

Predictions:

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