There was a time when most of the world’s Internet traffic passed through the US. But that’s changing rapidly, according to a new study from communication analysts TeleGeography Research. Instead, there’s been a big rise in Internet capacity in other parts of the world over the last year, particularly in Latin American and Asia.
The Guardian reports that the survey of global Internet backbone providers looked at the size, capacity and traffic of Internet connections, and discovered some seismic shifts. Where 91% of Asian data passed through the US in 1999, that figure is now just 54%. For Africa the amount has shifted from 70% to just 6%.
