Skype Dialtone: 21.5 million simultaneous online – new record

Dialtone is a promise. It's the promise of connection. To humanity, to family, to government and social services. It's a promise your phone will ring when someone calls. 

Skype Journal,
20 August 2007

Skype's dialtone continues to grow. 21.5 million people were logged in on Skype's network Monday, 11 January. Compare this to Tencent's QQ instant messenger network, boasting a dialtone of 75.5 million at the end of 2009q3.

Skype's dialtone reached 20 million on November 9, 2009. That puts growth at 25K more people getting online daily, net of people who leave the network, in the last 63 days.

How fast is that growth? If everyone at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show signed up during its four days, they'd be skyping by now.

 

This continues a fairly linear trend.

Skype's dialtone is a product of:

• The number of people with accounts.
• The amount of time they spend logged in on any given day or over week.

Dialtone is good for Skype. It measures the chances that someone you know (or someone you don't know) is available to talk. Dialtone shows the strength of Skype's network effects, its capacity.

Skype encourages dialtone growth with every strategy. Device choice, so you connect how you like. Wi-Fi access, so you connect wherever you are. Usability so people stay connected and use the network. Skype for Business, so people use Skype even more at work.

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