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Skype Is Largest International Call Provider, Research Shows

by Peter Mychalcewycz on March 26, 2009 at 01:09 PM


How does it feel, AT&T?

According to research company TeleGeophraphy, Skype has put the smack down on AT&T and its peers, and can now claim to be the largest international call provider. Skype boasted 33 billion minutes of use in 2008 and an overall, worldwide traffic increase of 41-percent. A February report showed the online telephony service gaining over 380,000 users a day.

Much of the traffic on Skype comes from free, computer-to-computer use, but the service (which eBay bought for $2.6 billion in 2005) still managed to rake in $550 million in 2008. Seriously though, AT&T is doing just fine. We just like taking shots at the big boys every once in a while. [From: Ars Technica Via: Textually]

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