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OT: Skype Tops All in International Calls

 
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Frank F
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:18 am    Post subject: OT: Skype Tops All in International Calls Reply with quote
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Courtesy of Wired.com

Skype is now the largest provider of international phone calls in the world.

That's according to telecom research firm Telegeography, which estimates that Skype’s cross-border traffic shot up to 33 billion minutes in 2008, up more than 40% from the year before.

That includes about 25 million billion minutes of free "Skype-to-Skype" traffic that travels only through internet pipes and doesn't even go over the traditional telephone network. A little over 8 billion minutes are paid "Skype Out" calls that go from a user's computer to traditional telephones.

Read the full story: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/skype-tops-all.html


Skype continues to grow in quality as well with some figures comparing favorably in frequency analysis with the old ISDN favored audio codec G.722. Just a heads-up on where technology is taking us today.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quite a turnaround for a product that was once considered sketchy at best!
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