Skype hits 100 billion minutes, all of them free!
I am not a huge Skype fan I think that is pretty obvious to anyone who reads here regularly.
Therefore news last week that Skype has hit 100 billion minutes therefore is not going to make me rip off my clothes and take to the streets of Cork in celebration.
Firstly, everyone of these minutes were free, yes no income, nada, zip and if this was a “normal” business this announcement would be hidden away in some accountants underwear drawer. Its now obvious to even the most enthusiastic Skype fan that the only growth for the company is in the Skype to Skype market which is of zero benefit to the shareholders.
Skype out which butters Skype’s bread is also on a downward spiral and with monthly revenue around 00.15c per user (yes that is fifteen cent) its going to take a brave company to take the company off of Ebay’s hands.
Maybe Moshe or Luca who have very firm opinions on FREE might make an offer.
Cork girls are missing you, naked, running on the streets of Cork… A shame
Jokes apart, I wouldn’t be so happy in the feet of eBay. I’m curious to see if the not-overlapping user base between Skype and eBay led to a measurable new revenue stream for ebay… at least.
I had to do this for phun
1) skype hit the 100Billion mark correct ?? so how many mandays is that ??
2) ok skype states in mandays (1 000 000 000 * 100) / 1 140 = 87 719 298.2 mandays..that is a little over 1096491.23 lifeyears !! @ avg 80yr
3) em stat’s dont jive well.. tat is 1 million people would have died within that talktime :)-
and thats free time only.. !!
In fact Skype is the only voip App in the market today (al the rest just wasting their time).
Today Skype have leadership problem and that is what stopping them at the moment to start make some real money, think if they would start put some advertise ad’s in the software, they could make a very nice revenue, I don’t mind to get some ad’s in the software… Skype was saving me a lot of money during the last few years and I love them. I convinced must of the people I do business with them to talk over Skype and they did the same with their colleague, I even talk with my mom over Skype and that is something; Skype just had 12 million online users before few days ago and they are growing like crazy, they have about 30 million real users.
I didn’t believe in them first, but now I eat my hat.
There way is still long but the brand is good and the potential is fantastic, imagine in 3 or 4 year from today we all have mobile phone that can run skype with no problems and we will all have WiFi, WiMax or 4G, then skype will be the VON (voice + video over the net) leader. Mobile phones companies will be the wireless internet providers, same has happened to the PSTN companies, today they make money from the DSL and not from the land line…