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The infographics data is deceptive.

1.8 Billion Minutes of Video calls (All people minutes on skype for year); 916 hours of movies made per year (movies made by production house); 9 years of average time spent on watching TV (Time spent by a single consumer)

How these things are related are beyond my understanding. It looks like somehow the 1.8 Billion had to be made appear bigger , so they put some filler data along with it.




If they compared it to "Minutes spent on cellphone/landline" it wouldn't look quite so impressive.

I did a quick look for some statistics on cellphone/landline usage, but I'd expect it's a few added 0's on the end of Skype usage still.




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