A quick one, but a good one – in 2008, Skype users made 33 billion minutes of cross-border calls, an increase of 41% on the 2007 figure.

That’s 8% of the total combined international phone and Skype traffic.

The results of a new survey published by communications research company Telegeography also confirm that Skype is the largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world – a pretty impressive feat for a five year old company