Skype still gets the vibe?
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December-2004 Skype was bold: 90% of VoIP traffic! Yes, so damn impressive… December-2005 Skype: a mere 45% of VoIP market share. Only for Europe. In North America, the market share of voice software company is even lower: 14.4% of traffic, behind the 21.7% of Vonage, according Sandvine, the broadband consulting company which gathered the numbers.
Is Skype stumbling? Is its user base eroding? Was eBay sick to acquire it for $2.6 billion?
No, Techworld replies. But many competitors have stepped into this trendy market within just one year. NTL/Telewest, FastWeb, Free Telecom just for Europe who all provide a triple-play (Internet, television, VoIP phone) service.
73% of their customers don’t even know what is VoIP, noticed InStat. That makes sense. Why should “Grand-Mama” need to care about VoIP while she is still using the same handset to make free calls?
To bust the Skype Golden Age a bit more, Techworld reports the results of a research conducted by Point Topic in July. Only 5.3 million active users for 100 million Skype client downloads and 35 million registered users. For Skype, there’s not 100 million client downloads but over 248 million times… Who dribbers?
Feb 4, 2006 | By Nuno
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