Big Jump in Internet Phone Callers Percent of internet users who say they sever use a service such as Skype or Vonage to make a phone
In its early surveys about technology use in 2000, when about half of American adults used the internet, the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project found that about a tenth of those internet users placed phone calls using the internet. In its last reading in late 2012, when over 80% of Americans were internet users, the Project found that 30% of them had placed online phone calls.
Big Jump in Internet Phone Callers  | Percent of internet users who say they sever use a  | service such as Skype or Vonage to make a phone  | call online.  | 30%  | 40%  | Dec., 2012  | 30  | 24% May, 2011  | 20  | 10  | 8% Feb., 2007  | 7% June 2003  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 