Skype owns a third of international telephone traffic

Not so long ago, just the other day, news about TeleGeography and its Internet trunk maps was published. Now the specialists of this company presented the results of the analysis of international traffic. And these results are very interesting - now about 30% of international telephone traffic falls on Skype.

In minutes, the total Skype traffic for 2012 is 167 billion minutes. This is 44% more than in 2011. The growth of Skype traffic is incomparably more active than the overall growth of international telephone traffic (only 5%, 2011-2012). TeleGeography analysts explain the popularity of Skype by a gradual change in the attitude of ordinary people towards Internet technologies, in particular, Skype.
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Now Skype is not the same, almost amateur tool for telephone conversations and teleconferences, which he was a couple of years ago. On the contrary, Skype is an independent player in the telephony market, which is growing rapidly. Among other things, the popularization of Skype contributes to the work of Microsoft, the current owner of this VoIP messenger. The corporation builds Skype into many of its products, which contributes to the further seizure of the Skype telephony market.

Via fiercewireless + telegeography