Call Waiting
People talk. A lot.
Posted by: Economist.com
Global chatter on the phone making international calls for over 298 billion minutes (equivalent to well over half a million years) in 2006, according to TeleGeography, a research company. Telecoms firms are increasingly using Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) instead of traditional networks to carry calls.
Voice traffic transported by both methods has increased by 10% since 2005, the slowest growth rate for 20 years. But the talking hasn’t stopped. Much of this slowdown can be attributed to the uptake of computer-to-computer VOIP services such as Skype. Some 14.1 billion minutes of calls were made using Skype last year.
