TELECOMMUNICATIONS

One Million Simultaneous Users on Skype

October 19, 2004

October 20, 2004.

Today Skype reached a new milestone and had more than 1 million simultaneous users globally connected to each other at the same time. As of Tuesday, October 19, Skype has served more than 2 billion minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calling.

Skype is the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history, the previous others were Netscape, ICQ, Hotmail & KaZaA.

More than 12.9 million users from every country in the world account for over 28 million downloads of Skype software in the first 14 months.

http://www,skype.com

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After Editing or Managing over 50 print publications primarily in the role of a Magazine Doctor, Mike embraced the internet full-time in 1995 and became a "start-up all-rounder" – quite a few start-ups later, he founded Gizmag in 2002. Now he can write again. All articles by Mike Hanlon