• TechCrunch, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:08 PM

Despite increased competition, VoIP provider Skype saw its share of international calling minutes increase 50% year-over-year to a 12% market share in 2009, according to new research from TeleGeography. In total, that equates to 54 billion minutes out of a total 406 billion international calling minutes. According to TeleGeography, international call volume from telephones has grown at an annual rate of 15% over the past 25 years, while that growth has been slowing for the past few years.

In the past two years, meanwhile, international telephone traffic annual growth has reportedly slowed to just 8% -- growing from 376 billion minutes in 2008 to an estimated 406 billion minutes in 2009. However, Skype's on-net international traffic -- between Skype users -- grew 51% in 2008, and was projected to have grown by 63% in 2009.

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