PRIMUS Telecommunications carried more than one billion minutes of international voice traffic over the public Internet in 2003. The company believes it now carries more than four% of the estimated 24 billion total VOIP minutes worldwide. http://www.primustel.com
Primus Surpasses One Billion International VoIP Minutes in 2003
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You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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