Skype now has more than 500 Million users worldwide
Wow. The focus of the article (link below) is about the corporate restructuring of Skype, but this is the piece that I found most interesting:
Skype is on a $740 million revenue run-rate and boasts 521 million users worldwide. "Skype is gigantic and yet still a relatively small percentage of international call volume," notes Andreesen. "This is, and ought to be, one of the most important companies on the Internet."
The inclusion of mobile apps for Skype on iPhone and Android and other smartphones will only continue to drive this trend forward.
If ever there were a time for communications providers and carriers (e.g. Verizon, AT&T, BT, Telmex, Vodafone, Telefonica, Telstra, Qwest, Telus and on and on) to innovate and create a value proposition that is about more than voice and broadband, this is it!
If you are one of those providers that is thinking about this, we would love to connect with you about our work at both CloudProfile and Mural Consulting.
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