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
Consumer video has emerged as the dominant driver of Internet backbone traffic and long-haul network demand as a new generation of video services rapidly change the structure of the telecom market. Now cable companies, phone companies, and broadban ...
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 [...] ...