Burlington, Massachusetts-based VoIP telephone provider, iBasis Inc., says that it carried a record volume of calls during the 2006/2007 holiday season.
The company terminated 53.6 million minutes of VoIP traffic on Christmas day alone, 30% higher than on December 25, 2005, and 52.9 million Minutes on New Year’s Day, up 38% from last year.
While they were certainly record traffic days for iBasis, the holidays may have been the two greatest 24-hour periods of Internet-based phone activity in history, commented the carrier’s CEO, Ofer Gneezy.
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