Tech research film Forrester has

Tech research film Forrester has some new research out today on internet penetration in Europe. Amazingly, given the amount of stick Forrester has had in the past for their often wildly optimistic predictions, they have found that reality has exceeded even their expectations. In 1999 only 19 percent of Europeans aged 16+ were online regularly. By 2001, what had jumped to 39 per cent. Today, half of Europe has access to the net in some way. Nordic countries lead the way in percentage of penetration today, with Germany, Italy and the UK expected to rank one, two and three by 2006 in terms of the largest markets.