This IDC study sizes and forecasts the market for Internet usage and commerce globally. It is based on version 11.1 of IDC's Internet Commerce Market Model (ICMM). Data is provided for 2006 with forecasts out to 2010. Forecasts of Internet access devices, users, and buyers as well as consumer and commercial commerce are provided.

"Despite continuing political and economic uncertainty, the Internet's extraordinary stability, resiliency, and ever-increasing utility will push the global market for ecommerce spending past $10 trillion by 2010," states Carol M. Glasheen, IDC program vice president, Global Market Models and Demand-Side Research.