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, […]

On September 21, 2007, Communications Day reported that Google is heading up a consortium of telecom companies that is working on a trans-Pacific undersea cable, called “Unity.” Google is joining a crowded field of telecom companies seeking to build new cables across the Pacific.

Trans-Pacific bandwidth demand has soared in recent years, due to the rapid […]

The number of US consumer VoIP subscribers soared from 6.5 million in mid-2006 to 11.8 million by the 2nd quarter of 2007, according to TeleGeography’s US VoIP Research Service. While the growth of network-independent providers like Vonage has slowed sharply, cable companies’ rapid voice subscriber gains have more than made up the difference. TeleGeography projects […]

TeleGeography’s new European VoIP Research Service projects that nearly 30 million consumer VoIP lines will be in service across Europe by end of 2007, up from 6.5 million at the beginning of 2006. The rapid growth of VoIP will change the way telcos do business in Europe, and challenges the historical stronghold of incumbent service […]

TeleGeography’s new European VoIP Research Service, which builds on our successful U.S. VoIP Research Service, will be launched in the coming weeks. We are currently finalizing our analysis and preparing for the launch of the online service, which is based on months of original carrier surveys, interviews, and data analysis by TeleGeography’s research team.
Although the […]