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Skype: Ten Billion Minutes Served

June 19, 2005 09:59 AM

Topics: Skype News

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Rolls off the tongue.

As of now:

  • Total Skype Downloads: 122,940,494
  • Users Online Now: 2,296,041
  • Total Minutes Served: 10,001,423,810

Milestones to come:

  • 10 million concurrent users online
  • 100 billion minutes served
  • 1000 registered independent software developers
  • 1000 Skype employees
  • Zero PSTNs blocking Skype.com
  • Someone from Skype as Time Magazine Person of the Year
  • Dell ships millionth mobile phone bundled with Skype
  • Skype office manager retires in luxury four years after Skype IPO

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Comments

Posted by: Uri L. at June 20, 2005 12:11 AM

Well, the milestones list just tickled my "let's play some guessing games" neurons, so here are quick follow ups:

- IPO - perhaps also M&A's, or a takeover? My most wild guess is "Apple takeovers Skype". Sounds almost ridicule eh? but the applers are now very much in the media & entertainment biz. And they always liked to be associated with coolest and trendy products. iChat will remain.

10m concurrent users - Half of this (5m)or more will be achieved by this year end.

Posted by: Tjerk at June 21, 2005 1:48 AM

And what about the figures now? How many software engineers are working on the applications? I still see google as the most pref M&A partner. What a great company.

Posted by: raindeer at June 21, 2005 2:08 AM

How are the 10 billion minutes calculated? Since Skype is peer to peer I didn't think it would record who contacted who for how long.

Posted by: John Doe at June 21, 2005 2:07 PM

The number of downloads is impressive, however, it's probably mainly a result of the missing update feature. You cannot update Skype but have to download the new versions again and again and again...

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