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150 million Skype users by year end

May 2, 2006 09:01 PM

Topics: Business

If you follow Skype's claimed statistics, Skype should hit 150 million user accounts by year end. The arithmetic: There are 243 days until year end. Multiply that times Skype's stated 200,000 new users per day. 150 million assumes the adoption rate doesn't change. It could go up if eBay promotes Skype to its members just a little more than it has. And Skype's positioning of the product for small business could boost adoption too. The adoption rate could slow or fall with rising competitive pressure by phone companies, cable companies, mobile operators and Internet portals. Care to start a pool for the year end number? I'm picking 165,345,201.

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Posted by: relaxedguy [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 3, 2006 1:14 PM

158,234,983.

How many actual consistent users? I say 20 million tops.

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