The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Skype's online calling rings through industry

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Skype's online calling rings through industry: "Skype is adding 130,000 registered users a day — in the process creating its own vocabulary, as in "skype me" — all without spending a cent on advertising.
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Skype gets revenue in two ways. The first, SkypeOut, lets users place calls to regular phones for about 1.7 euro cents a minute. Callers buy prepaid calling cards for 10 euros ($12), which provide about 600 minutes.
The second source of revenue, SkypeIn, provides users with a phone number so they can receive calls from regular phones. A customer in London can get a San Francisco number that lets friends and family in California call him or her at local rates. The service costs 30 euros a year.
Zennstrom says about 5 percent of Skype users pay for one plan or the other.
Zennstrom estimates that as many as 30 percent of skypers are business clients such as Kern and Vollenweider."

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