Dec
12
Call waiting
International voice traffic slows
PEOPLE chatted 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…
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