By 2001, 12 percent of home mortgages will be processed over the Web (Myers Internet Services) .. Eighteen million adults used the Net to find medical information last year, with 30 million expected to do so by 2001 (Cyber Dialogue) .. Only 28 percent of congressional and gubernatorial incumbent candidates have Web sites, compared with 64 percent of challengers; almost 50 percent of Americans are using the Web to learn about specific candidates or party issues (George Washington University) .. Two-thirds of Americans with Internet access would prefer to cast their vote over the Web (ActivMedia) .. Fifty percent of Net users never click banner ads (Market Facts) .. Web advertising revenues in Q2 '98 were up 97 percent over the same period last year (Internet Advertising Bureau) .. Thirty-six percent of Net users say they'd pay up to $40 a month for cable modem service (Yankee Group) .. Only one in seven US households has access to cable modem service (Yankee Group) .. In 2003, the analog modem will still be the primary way we access the Net (GartnerGroup) ... Net traffic will swallow up 90 percent of all available bandwidth by 2003 (Strategic Networks) ... The number of Internet users in China will hit 9.4 million by 2002, a more than fivefold increase from today (International Data Corporation) ... Fifty-five percent of European banks offer Net banking, compared with 15 percent of US banks (Bluesky International Marketing) ... The number of PCs sold during Q3 '98 in Western Europe jumped 22.6 percent over Q3 '97 (Context) ... Ecommerce revenue in Europe is expected to hit $8 billion by 2004, up from $35.8 million in 1997 (Frost & Sullivan) ... More people own a Sony PlayStation than own Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time (Sony) ... The average corporate worker in the US sends/receives 52 phone calls, 22 voicemails, four pages, and three cell phone calls daily (Pitney Bowes)
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