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The survey, accordingto Tech Crunch, also reports that “men are more likely than women to say that if they were going to change the way they make international phone calls they would switch to use their mobile phone VoIP service/application (10 percent vs. 2 percent respectively).”

For video calls it’s the same, 16 percent vs. 11 percent respectively, and men are also more likely than women to be willing to pay a monthly fee to be able to do so -- an eyebrow-raising 42 percent vs. 24 percent, respectively.

This summer, TMC’s Tom Keating (News - Alert) reported that, according to a Skype official who contacted him, “we are not considering FaceTime (News - Alert) as a technological platform for video calling in our own products. Based on Apple's statement about FaceTime being an open platform, we are looking forward to see how this process unfolds.”

But taking all adults who make international calls into account, the majority still use a landline -- 51 percent, a bare majority but still a majority, using either a traditional landline service provider (42 percent) and/or a VoIP service such as Vonage (News - Alert) (12 percent). And as Tech Crunch reports, “another 44 percent make international phone calls via their mobile phones, through carrier calling rates (25 percent), special long distance packages (20 percent), and/or a VoIP service/application (9 percent).”

As probably should be expected, Tech Crunch says, Hispanic respondents “led the way in international calls with 36 percent saying they make them, whereas only 26 percent of the Black/African American respondents said they make calls internationally.”