Does Skype hurt international Voice traffic?
Will services like Skype, basically computer based enhanced IM clients, eliminate the need for international carriers? According to data presented in the newly released TeleGeography Report and Database, Not anytime soon.
During 2005 we all spent 272 Billion minutes on telephone calls. this figure changed in 2006, it became 313 Billion. This is about 15%.
So how much of this is Skype? in 2005 it had 2.8% of the telecom pie. In 2006 it increased, to 4.4% of the 2006 pie. It is a hefty increase and may be Ebay is in a path to recover what it invested on Skype. Hurray for Skype.
So hoe did the Other VOIP providers do? Not so bad, they are slowly eating into the switched circuit service providers. The Other VOIP service providers increased from 16.6% in 2005 to 19.8% in 2006.
Both these VOIP services, reduced Switched circuit carriers, form 80.6% in 2005 to 75.8% in 2006.
So the telecom giants are still in control it seems. But IP based telephony will be all over us as time goes by.
'Someday, all calls will be routed over the Internet,' commented Stephan Beckert, Research Director at TeleGeography. 'But the numbers suggest that traditional international carriers aren’t going to disappear anytime soon.'
Updated continually since 1989, TeleGeography Report and Database has become the benchmark report for the international carrier industry. To learn more about the enhanced 2007 version, available now, please follow the links provided.
Links;
Telegeography Report and Database
Telegeography main site
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