Telegeography: 12% of international calling is on Skype

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According to a recent independent study conducted by Telegeography, about 12 percent of international calls are made on Skype! While international calling growth has slowed, Skype calling growth increased. The report states that Skype's international calling traffic was 54 billion minutes in 2009 having grown 63 percent since 2008.

The Telegeography report revealed that annual international telephone calling only grew by about 8 percent. "The volume of traffic routed via Skype is tremendous," said TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert in the release. "Skype is now the largest provider of cross border communications in the world, by far." With even more options and Skype competitors on the horizon, one can only imagine what these numbers will look like this time next year.

For more:
- read the release (http://www.telegeography.com/mail/tg_press_2009a.html)

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