Skype Is By Far The Worlds Largest Provider of International Calls

Skype has seen its share of international calling minutes jump to 12% in 2009 according to TeleGeography. According to teh TeleGeography report there were a total of 406 billion international minutes in 2009, and Skype accounted for a staggering 54 billion by Skype-to-Skype calls.

TeleGeography says international call volume from telephones has grown at an annual rate of 15 percent over the past 25 years, but that growth has been slowing for the past few years. In the past two years, specifically, international telephone traffic annual growth has reportedly slowed to a mere 8 percent, growing from 376 billion minutes in 2008 to an estimated 406 billion minutes last year.

TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert refers to Skype’s estimated volume of traffic as “tremendous” and goes on to say that Skype is now by far the largest provider of cross-border communications in the world.

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