What is Skype?
Skype is basically software that enables the conversations around the world. Every day, millions of individuals and businesses are using Skype for making free video and voice calls, sending instant messages and sharing files with other Skype users. Skype also offers low-cost calls to other landlines and mobiles.
Where is Skype?
Skype is a leading global internet communications company that was founded in 2003. It is headquartered at Luxembourg with offices in Europe, the US and Asia. It is owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake including eBay Inc, Joltid Limited and Niklas Zennström and Janus Frii (Skype founders), Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
What Skype can do?
- Skype offers Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls absolutely free. As per the data of the third quarter of 2009, Skype users have made 27.7 billion minutes of Skype-to-Skype calls and about one third of these calls were video calls.
- Skype’s services are available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, across the globe. One can imagine the traffic on the site at peak hours with over 20 million people online.
- Provide voice and video calling, IM and SMS.
- Skype connect business colleagues and assist in saving their time and money.
- Skype keeps the friends and families together, wherever they go in the world.
- Skype is compatible with a wide range of mobiles. Additionally it also works on devices like the PlayStation® Portable (PSP®). There’s also a wide range of WiFi and cordless phones that comes with Skype built-in.
- Customers can send instant message (IM) to anyone on his contact list. One can also use group IM to chat with numerous people at the same time.
- Customer can hold a conference call in order to organise a get-together and also find business recommendations for searching the perfect venue.
- Skype also provide cool video features. One can personalise Skype to use free video calls or take photos.
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Category: VoIP Software
