SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail
“SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail enhance the basic free Skype and give friends, family and colleagues not connected to the Internet an inexpensive and convenient way to contact members of our global user base,” Niklas Zennstram, Skype’s chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a statement.
A free download of Skype allows users with Internet connections to make free VoIP calls to other users of the program. In its first 18 months of existence, the company, based in Luxembourg, claims to have enrolled 41 million users, with an average 150,000 new users joining each day and a total of 118 million downloads of its software.
SkypeOut — as the company’s current premium service offering is known — has 1.5 million registered users and allows access to traditional telephone lines at an average rate of 2 cents per minute.
Now, SkypeIn will give users a telephone number to receive calls as well. It costs $39 per year and shifts the company from its roots as a peer-to-peer service to a commercial service.
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