Bill Campbell

3 Million Skype Users online Concurrently

May 18, 2005 07:32 AM

Topics: Yet More News Topics | regions | statistics

Moments ago Skype passed another threshold. 7:30 AM in British Columbia Canada, 8 PM in Bangalore, India according to Vir Bhanu of Knowledge Systems who gave me the heads up.

Here was the world at that moment in time compliments of here:

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If you follow Voice on the Net this is an important moment. About 8.5 percent of the Skype User community is online at one time.

The next largest player in this space is probably Vonage with a total of 650,000 users. Players in the VON space can't ignore Skype if they want to have a worthwhile strategy for this market segment.

For Skype Users the opportunities to connect and build a global personal network get better everyday. So when will the next threshold of 4 Million users online occur? Any math wizards out there care to give us a date?




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Comments

Posted by: Sandy Kemsley at May 18, 2005 10:59 AM

Canada has 6 time zones, in which one was it 7:30am? There's only one that synchs to the 1/2 hour rather than the hour, so I would have guessed that it was 7:30am in Newfoundland, but the position of the sun on your chart seems to indicate that it was later than that.

Posted by: Bill Campbell at May 18, 2005 11:27 AM

Hey Sandy! Thanks. Yeah, that Canada thing bothered me an hour later. I did an edit and added British Columbia, Canada. But even that isn't good enough since BC has two time zones. :) I am in Kelowna, Pacific Daylight time.

I am not sure what goes with Time in India. As I understand it they have only one time zone and it is on the half-hour which syncs them up with Newfoundland. Perhaps the people in Bangalore see some economic advantage in our lovely east-coast rock that the rest of Canadian's have missed. :)

Regards, Bill

Posted by: Jean Mercier at May 19, 2005 12:20 AM

Ok Bill, you want an estimate for the 4 million milestone?
I calculated it should be July 28, 2005! But ... as it is Holiday period in a big part of Europe, i guess a lot of people will be off line! Probably the real date will be one week later!
We bet?

Posted by: Graham J Wallace at May 19, 2005 9:05 AM

Another Canadian entering the conversation. Not to put too fine a point to the post but.............no I won't. What a great post Bill, thanks.

As to the when the next milestone will be are we now "thin slicing" the event to 1/2 hour increments?

gjw

Posted by: Shrek at May 19, 2005 9:56 AM

the Skype's security system has been broken by chinese hacker :)

http://Shreks.BlogChina.com

Posted by: Kay at May 24, 2005 6:03 AM

Could you tell me, what number of users were speaking online and what were chating?

Thank you!

Posted by: Stuart Henshall at May 24, 2005 8:33 AM

Kay,
I don't believe that even Skype has these numbers. We'd also have to think about them differently. For example when is it a traditional style call vs leaving it on.. like an intercom. Similarly if a chat window isn't closed for days... what constitutes a new chat session... is it time elapsed between messages? It's possible to research and get an answer, it will cost you money! ;-).

Posted by: Kay at May 25, 2005 5:12 AM

ok, but if skype has a counter of calls? maybe it has a statistics of skypeout calls per minute or an hour? :))

i wanna know this information, cause my company promotes skypeout in Russia. we wanna let our users to learn more about skype :)

Posted by: Udai at June 26, 2006 4:45 PM

Hi, This is a very good and cheptest way of communication.
You should utilize it full features.

Posted by: Peterson at July 3, 2006 3:16 AM

How many pople are Skype users in Asia, Europe, and America? Thank you for yourhelp!

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