"Prices in international long distance only go down," says Telegeography VP Stephan Beckert. The only issue seems to be the rate of decline.
But that wasn't anything unusual in 2011. International long distance rates have been dropping since about 2000, though there are regional variations.
The declines are a serious issue for retail service providers, who are seeing increasing amounts of traffic "growth" siphoned off by Skype.
As a percentage of overall global bandwidth, though, video and Internet traffic now is what drives capacity requirements, not enterprise data or voice.
Monday, January 16, 2012
International Long Distance Prices Decline 5% in 2011
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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