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- Concerned about SkypeOut voice quality? This new agreement may help
- Andy Abramson, yours truly, and perhaps you have been concerned about inconsistencies in the voice quality of SkypeOut calls.Hopefully, a new agreement between Skype and voice termination services solutions provider Teleglobe will help.Teleglobe will provide call termination for SkypeOut. This will be accomplished via the Teleglobe VoIPLink service, a redundant,...
- Tags: Skype
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Contest offers free Wi-Fi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and more
- Contest offers free Wi-Fi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and moreFree?;)
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Routers & switches, Network technology, FON, Wi-Fi phone, SkypeOut, router, Wi-Fi, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- Contest offers free Wi-Fi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and more
- Skype is offering a SMC WiFi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and a years worth of free Skype voicemail for $159. Thatd be around $50 off retail. Better yet, Im going to tell you how to win one for free. But first, heres a link...
- Tags: Skype, Promotions, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Skype's new upfront North America calling plan: a stage in a broader strategy
- Skype's new upfront North America calling plan: a stage in a broader strategyIt was only a matter of time free endedSkype to phone quality stinks. You can't even use touch tone navigation. They only offered free calls to kill the Vonage IPO.Guess it didn't workVonage seems to be...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Linux Client, strategy, VoIP, phone, Vonage Holdings Corp., Skype Technologies S.A., SkypeOut, end-of-the-year
- Discussion threads 2006-12-13
- One Skype user's tale of SkypeOut "Add Credits" woe
- Skype user rox has recently experienced a customer-service meltdown of the highest magnitude. She writes us to call attention to the many Skype Forum posts she has made in which she has given a blow-by-blow account of the ordeal.This whole bloody mess started when rox attempted to add an...
- Tags: General, Skype, Case Studies, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- SkypeOut's big touch-tone recognition problem
- SkypeOut's big touch-tone recognition problemDTMFThis is the main reason why I would not yet switch from my standard VoIP provider to exclusivelhy Skype. Skype needs to get serious if it wants to become a credible alternative for business calling.
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, recognition problem, SkypeOut, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
- SkypeOut now free in US and Canada
- SkypeOut now free in US and CanadaGrand!I wonder if they'll bring this to the UK?Great user-gaining strategy!!!I just last week deleted my Skype software and when asked why... I said that there were more FREE services out there that don't require payment. And now look what they do! ...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Software, SkypeOut
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- SkypeOut now free in US and Canada
- Skype has tossed down the gauntlet. In an announcement today, the company announced that SkypeOut - the ability to call any landline or mobile number - is now available free through the end of the year to all U.S. and Canadian customers. From the press release I just received:Skype, the...
- Tags: Canadian Customers, Skype Technologies S.A., SkypeOut
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Skype expert: SkypeOut a "lousy PSTN experience"
- Skype expert: SkypeOut a "lousy PSTN experience"Where's my fork?Time to STICK IT IN THEM. $3 billion in good money after bad. Criminally negligent stupidity.You'll find regrets on eBaySkype is fundamentally unsuited to PSTN calls -- yet this is how they plan to make money? eBay are SUCKERS!Try Stanaphone instead for...
- Tags: VOIP, PSTN, Skype Technologies S.A., SkypeOut, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
- Skype expert: SkypeOut a "lousy PSTN experience"
- Martin Geddes knows telephony inside out. You don't get to be cited on 17 Sprint patents if your knowledge of telephony engineering issues isn't deep and broad. Martin knows Skype inside out as well. He's one of the key writers for Skype Journal, an independent news and views site...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., SkypeOut
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
- Caution all Skype users: here's today's BIG Skype teachable moment
- Update: As some readers have pointed out, it does seem that when you place a call on SkypeOut, the folks you call see a generic Skype number even if you have SkypeIn. I have revised this post to reflect this information.As some readers will know, you need a SkypeOut account...
- Tags: SkypeIn, SkypeOut, softphone, Caller I.D.
- Blog posts 2005-08-18
- SkypeOut call-forwarding among new Skype APIs now in lab
- On the new Skype Developer blog, Skype's platform strategy manager Lenn Pryor notes some Skype API projects in the lab.These are:Call Forwarding. "You will soon be able to forward all incoming Skype calls to any other Skype out number. Call forwarding may be controlled through the Skype client or through...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-07-19
- SkypeOut giving out 10 free minutes four days in July
- Yes, you read it right...Over on the Skype-run, Share Skype blog, Jaanus, who heads up Skype's Forums, posted this interesting nugget a little earlier today:"A little bird flew by and whispered me that Skype is soon going to hand out some services you’d normally pay for. And you don’t have...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-07-08
- Skype kiosks in malls? SkypeOut coupons at U-bookstores? U-bet!
- Skype and mobile phone distributor Brightpoint have just announced a preliminary agreement that, which if finalized,will really alter the consumer and SOHO VoIP landscape.If and when all the t's are crossed, in Brightpoint will promote Skype products and premium services through its retail and dealer channels. These include big box...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-06-14
- SkypeOut's big touch-tone recognition problem
- Last week, colleague Ben Charny had an interesting conversation with Skype CEO Niklas Zennström. Ben pressed Zennström on some quality of service issues he's been hearing about, especially on the SkypeOut service. That's Skype's offering that lets you call non-Skype numbers anywhere in the world for just a few pennies.I...
- Tags: SkypeOut, Niklas Zennström
- Blog posts 2005-05-31
- The SkypeOut Forum as a complaint gallery
- The SkypeOut Forum as a complaint gallerynothing is perfectFirst off the funniest thing about that article was that the packet 8 guy put in a little jab...got to love a loser crying in his beer :). Sure i use skype out and i love it. There are problems...
- Tags: Firewalls, pricing strategy, nothing, SkypeOut, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2005-02-16
- The SkypeOut Forum is a chamber of horror stories
- As our own Ben Charny reports today, users of Skype's new PC-to-phone SkypeOut service report multiple customer service problems.I've just come back from a point-and-click sessionon the SkypeOut section of the Skype Forum. You'll find a chamber of horrors... choppy calls, non-connects, mis-credits, non-credits, inexplicable errors.Theseshortcomings mesh with the complaints...
- Tags: SkypeOut
- Blog posts 2005-02-16
Additional Resources
- eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app
- Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- iSkoot for Skype (Windows Mobile Pocket PC) (CAB)
- With iSkoot for Skype, you can make & receive Skype calls, chat, and use SkypeOut to call regular numbers anywhere in the world. And with our newly enhanced feature set, now you can easily place SkypeOut calls to anyone in your general address book, and enjoy cool new Skype chat...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, PC, Skype Technologies S.A., iSkoot, Thin Clients, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-30
- Skype (dmg)
- Skype is software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world in minutes. Created by the people who brought you Kazaa, Skype uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other users. It is quick and easy to install and offers several features, including SkypeOut calling...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Corporate Communications, Peer To Peer (P2P), Apple Mac OS X, Marketing, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
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