• UK’s first consumer broadband service launched

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) specification 802.11b standardises 2.4 GHz wireless networks (known as ‘WiFi’)

• Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan launch blogger.com (see our blog)

• Ofcom’s Predecessor, Oftel, begins investigation into Local Loop Unbundling in UK ADSL, cable branch launched

• BT Openworld launches and offers 512k broadband for £39,99/month initially to businesses and the consumers

• The UK is 11^th out of 13 in deployment of broadband in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• A survey from the CMA said that 71% of those questioned believed their businesses were being hampered by a lack of broadband access LinkedIn (business-oriented social networking site) founded in Mountain View, California

• BT launches Broadband with a £23 million campaign

• Only 9% of UK households have a high-speed connection, compared to 39% in Germany and 33% in Sweden

• Friendster (social network) founded by Johnathan Abrams in Mountain View, California

• The number of UK households and small businesses connecting to the Internet via a broadband connection passes the 3 million mark

• MySpace (social network) founded, headed by Chris DeWolfe

• Apple Launches iTunes in the US

• There are now 5 million broadband connections in the UK

• Facebook founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Mark Zuckerberg

• Broadband services now available to 90% of the population

• 2Mb Broadband launched by BT

• MySpace acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for $580 million

• YouTube founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim (See our Channel)

• Regulator Ofcom forces BT to open up its exchanges to rivals to give the UK a more competitive broadband market, handing over 1.5 million lines, as part of the local loop unbundling process, which began in 2000

• YouTube acquired by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion

• Twitter created by Jack Dorsey (See our Twitter)

• 70% of the population has used the Internet and over half of homes have broadband

• 42% of households in the EU now have a broadband connection, representing a 12% rise on the figure for 2006

• UK web video consumption increases 91% in a year to 1.2 billion minutes – Nielsen Online

• Virgin launch 50Mb product

• Europe passes US in WiFi use

• Bebo acquired by AOL for $850 million

• UK Broadband penetration is 14^th highest worldwide

• 50% of UK households now connected to broadband

• One in seven 18-24 year olds now watch no live TV at all, choosing to watch video via the web

• Adodo join the Social Networking phenomenon, you can now find us on Linked In, Twitter, YouTube and Blogger.com

• By the end of this year, it is thought that mobile broadband will take over from wired broadband.

• Adodo now offer competitively priced Broadband options including ADSL, ADSL2, SDSL, Ethernet First Mile  better known as EFM and Leased line depending on your business needs.

For the future....watch this space.