2.6 billion minutes of calls were made over the Internet in 1999, 12 times the total for 1998 (Probe Research) ... One-third of all 911 calls in the United States last year came from cell phones (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) ... Globally, ecommerce conducted over wireless devices will generate 14 billion transactions annually by 2004 (Strategy Analytics) ... 40 percent of ecommerce directors at retail companies worldwide have never purchased goods online (DHL Worldwide Express) ... Consumer electronics sales in the United States will reach $95 billion in 2002, up from $75 billion in 1998 (Consumer Electronics Association) ... Since April 1997, the number of personalized Web pages has increased by 16 million to 18.8 million (Cyber Dialogue) ... North American long distance carriers will deploy 6.8 million miles of optical fiber in 2000, four times the 1997 amount (KMI Corporation) ... In an average year, American workers sick with the flu miss a cumulative 75 million days of work (National Center for Health Statistics) ... Internet access in US hospitals doubled in the past year, with 80 percent of physicians and staff members now connected (VHA Inc.) ... Nearly one in five surveyed Internet users have invested in dot-coms (Arthur Andersen)
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