Skype use growing faster than traditional calls

Skype use growing faster than traditional calls

Story by Newsdesk, 18-01-2010, 0 comment

Skype is now the largest cross-border communications provider.

The growth of international telephone traffic has slowed, while Skype’s growth has accelerated, according to recent research. Over the past 25 years, international call volume from telephones has grown at a compounded annual rate of 15 percent. In the past two years, however, international telephone traffic annual growth has slowed to only 8 percent, growing from 376 billion minutes in 2008 to an estimated 406 billion minutes in 2009.

While international telephone traffic growth has slowed, Skype’s traffic has soared. Skype’s on-net international traffic (between two Skype users) grew 51 percent in 2008, and is projected to grow 63 percent in 2009, to 54 billion minutes. "The volume of traffic routed via Skype is tremendous," said TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert. "Skype is now the largest provider of cross border communications in the world, by far."

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