Three international submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged on Friday, December 19, causing significant disruptions to internet and phone traffic in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and all of the Gulf states. The location of the fault was thought to have occurred between Tunisia and Italy. The three damaged cables are the FLAG Europe-Asia […]

New research from TeleGeography indicates that consumer VoIP subscribership in Europe is skyrocketing. At year-end 2007, 25.3 million consumer VoIP lines were in service in Western Europe, up from 15 million in 2006, and nearly four times the 6.5 million VoIP subscribers in 2005.
The key driver of growth has been aggressively priced bundles of voice, […]

According to new data from TeleGeography, international Internet traffic grew 53 percent between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61 percent the preceding year. Traffic growth between the U.S. and Latin America was especially fast, surging 112 percent. In contrast, traffic on Internet backbones between major cities in the relatively more mature U.S. market rose a […]

IP VPNs and private networks are a lifeline for international businesses, providing secure communications between headquarters and far-flung locations. Telecom companies around the globe are vying for corporate customers, offering IP VPN, private lines, and dedicated Internet access in cities around the globe.
This market is proving to be a challenge for buyers and sellers, alike. […]

New data from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Research Service reveal that the average price of wholesale circuits in most major markets dipped 10 to 20 percent in 2007. This decrease would represent a steep decline in most industries, but it’s a far cry from the price collapse carriers experienced in the early 2000s.
As price declines have […]

New data from TeleGeography reveal that voice over IP (VoIP) telephone service, which was only recently a novelty, is now commonplace in the U.S. By the first quarter of 2008, 16.3 million consumer VoIP lines were in service, representing 13.8 percent of all U.S. households, and 27 percent of broadband households.
While VoIP services are growing […]

TeleGeography will be exhibiting at the new International Telecoms Week (ITW) conference at the Hilton Washington in Washington DC (June 2-4, 2008).
Stop by Booth 207 to meet TeleGeography’s analysts, find out about our latest research, and for a chance to win one of our international telecom maps—we’ll be giving away 10 telecommunication maps each day […]

On the morning of 30 January, two international submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged, causing significant disruptions to internet and phone traffic in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and all of the Gulf states. The two damaged cables are the FLAG Europe-Asia cable, operated by FLAG Telecom, and SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4), […]

TeleGeography International Telecom Trends Workshop
PTC’08, January 13-16 2008; Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
TeleGeography’s senior research team will present its latest findings on global voice and data traffic growth, network supply and demand, and market pricing trends. Specific areas of focus will include:

Impact of video on wholesale markets
Impact of bundled […]

New research from TeleGeography reveals that international voice traffic growth is slowing, after decades of rapid growth. International voice traffic grew approximately 15% annually, from less than 18 billion minutes in 1986 to just under 300 billion in 2006. Deregulation, falling call prices, and rapid mobile subscriber growth helped to sustain the long boom. Recently, […]