Like most developing countries, the great majority of the Palestinian Internet traffic is outgoing traffic destined to access information outside Palestine. Local traffic is negligible in comparison. Electronic mail usage is ever increasing and is one of the most important Internet services. There is a large professional and personal community that has totally integrated electronic mail in their daily communications utilities. A significant percentage of the traffic is consumed by traffic intensive entertainment downloads such as images and video.
File transfers use another significant percentage.
List serves and mailing lists are not very popular yet. Cashing of Internet traffic will produce significant savings in expensive international traffic. Frequently visited sites and FTP sites will reside on the local cash servers, and access will be done locally. A Palestinian Inter traffic exchange will not produce a significant savings in International bandwidth in the near future since local traffic exchange is small. However this situation is destined to change as Palestinian Internet usage and the number of users and services increase.