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Skype By The (Jaw-Dropping) Numbers

  • GigaOm, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:55 PM
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, Skype had 560 million registered users, according to the company's chief technology strategist, Jonathan Rosenberg. Skype added 39 million registered users in the fourth quarter, while the number of Skype-to-Skype call minutes totaled 36.1 billion in the final three months of the year. What's more, Skype users made more the 250 billion minutes worth of Skype-to-Skype calls from the time the service was launched through the end of 2009. Furthermore, 36% of Skype-to-Skype calls as of the end of the fourth quarter included video, according to Rosenberg.

According to TeleGeography Research, meanwhile, Skype accounted for 12% of the world's international calling minutes in '09 -- a 50% increase over 2008 when it accounted for 8% of international calling.

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