99.9% Of North Korean Wireless Useres Connect Over 3G Network

North Korea Tops Global 3G network Adaptation http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
In the world of mobile data communications becoming very prominent and important,Secretive and closed economies in the world has come out on the top.
Before wondering how, remember the total number of wireless clients are 301,399 and most of them are on a single network (Egyptian owned cellco CHEO Technology (Koryolink)). Most probably all those are high ranking government officials and influential people, basically going nowhere over the network, other than texting and visiting a few government websites.
Japan (94.6&) came in the second followed by South Korea (71.7%). They were followed by Australia (64.6%) and Taiwan (58.1%). Sweden (55.4%) being the only non-Asia-Pacific country to enter the list, after first five slots taken by the Asian Pacific countries.
Six out of top ten countries to have most wireless users came from Asia as you can see from the graph above. USA (31.4%) is placed 24th.
TeleGeography's GlobalComms Database
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One Out Of Four International Calls Is Made Over Skype!

Skype Back In Numbers http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like despite the massive failure of Skype supernode network due to faulty windows client software, people still love skype and using it to call, locally and internationally. Skype simultaneous call numbers have gone up from 25 to 27 Million as of January 10th.
According to Telegeography, Skype accounted for 102.5 Billion minutes of International long distance calls. The culmulative International long distance calls fell by 4% in 2010 from previous year. The total ILD call voume was 413 Billion for 2009.
So according to the report, nearly a one of every four International Long Distance (ILD) calls is made over Skype. Where ever there is broadband penetration, the voice calls are dropping as people find that they can make VoIP calls by passing telcos, and Skype is the most popular VoIP service provider in the world.
If the those televisions with Skype (internet capabilities) and othe video calling gadgets at CES 2011 was any evidence, people will swap voice calls to Video calls. Skype is ready for that with it's regular Video client and Mobile video call clients like Skype for iPhone.that brings video over 3G. I am sure the recent Qik aquisition will go long way in the way of video business. With this much of growth, I think Skype might be ready for that Skype IPO. Then I wonder why my remove Skype get so many hits, perhaps to uninstall old Skype clients to install new clients.

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Submarine Cable Cuts Still A Mystery, (The Fifth Cable Cut Reported)

The recent damages to submarine cables serving Middle East and South East Asia hve taken turns and now it is reported that the fifth cable is also cut. All these began on January 23 when the Flag Telecoms FALCON undersea fiber optic cable near the Egypt was damaged. On January 30 another cable called the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut. Egyptian officials have reviewed the ship traffic in the area at the time of the damage and have ruled out that the damage was caused by a ships anchor.
On February 1st second cut was found in the FALCON cable, which resulted in severe disruption of data service in the Gulf region and South East Asia. So far the damages includes the FLAG Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran, SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria, SeaMeWe-4 near Penang, Malaysia, and FLAG near the Dubai coast.
Mahesh Jaishanker executive director of Business Development and Marketing for TeleGeography is saying, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”
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