Business & Technology | Fans stick by Skype despite outage | Seattle Times Newspaper

Apparently Skype's ~220 million users agree 

If anything, the reaction may be a sign that Internet telephony — or Voice over Internet Protocol — is coming of age, said Richard Levick, chief executive of Levick Strategic Communications, which provides crisis guidance for companies.

"The attention paid to these outages shows that these technologies have been accepted," he said. "As such, this outage will no more drive potential users away than a telephone outage in 1955 would have driven people back to using carrier pigeons."

Business & Technology | Fans stick by Skype despite outage | Seattle Times Newspaper