How popular is Skype, really

Posted by Pat Phelan
On December 20, 2008
Filed under General
Tags: JAJAH, Rebtel, Skype, Truphone
10 Comments

How popular is Skype, really

Whilst Skype generally isn’t my cup of tea, its reach is huge, I was looking at a few rankings this morning and thinking huge congrats must be due to my friends at Jajah.

Then I happened to take out Truphone and add Skype to the inquiry, results below kind of bought me back to reality.

10 comments...What do you think?

Posted by James Gallagher 20th December, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I’m a big fan of Skype, use the IM part daily and find the unlimited world calls subscription really, really good. I just wished it wasn’t completely closed so it could be integrated better into other systems.
Posted by Buzz 20th December, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I’m logged on every day, sometimes on my blackberry too, its great for chat with friends abroad. Currently there are 11 million logged on, I’ve never seen it higher than 14 million, so a lot of people must like it!
Posted by Bob Sfog 20th December, 2008 at 10:13 pm
if my mom use it for calls and chat no need to say more. i love skype.
Posted by Joel 21st December, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I use skype for my home phone and use it at work to allow me to remotely assist other people with software applications. Just think what they could do with a little more marketing.
Posted by Tim Panton 22nd December, 2008 at 10:06 am
I’m not sure well website statistics work
when you are trying to measure the success of a
VoIP company.
I only ever visit Truphone’s (or Skype’s) site for
an upgrade or top-up, both of which are rare, say
every couple of months, but I use their services at
least twice a week, and am logged into skype most days.

This favors JahJah of course because all their calls
are placed via their web site, where as Skype and Truphone have
non-web client applications.
Posted by Leon 22nd December, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Strange, I’m just messing with jajah for the first time and ended up here!

What do you mean “skype is not your cup of tea”!? Aren’t you in the telecoms industry? Thats like me saying food is not my cup of tea…!
Posted by Pat Phelan 23rd December, 2008 at 9:09 am
@Leon
I tend to talk on phones not on computers
Posted by Leon 23rd December, 2008 at 2:21 pm
@ Pat

The lines are kinda blurring these days wouldn’t you say!?
Posted by Colm Brophy 28th December, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Skype is still a very good service and the default VOIP for almost all internet users (if they need VOIP).

However I don’t really see what they’ve added to that core business over the last few years. They brought out their mobile phone (the only person I know who had one hated it), but the core online offering is a bit stagnant. This is not unlike how their parent ebay has been hugely stagnant after taking massive market share.

They need to innovate and improve if they don’t want to get overtaken by those small fish in the long run.