Free SkypeOut Days
July 10th, 2005 Posted in VOIP Services, Competition/Skype
While Vonage gets all the attention for its marketing panache - an easy feat if you're spending millions of dollars a month on advertising - Skype's efforts should also be commended. Four times in July, the VOIP rebel is offering “Free SkypeOut Days” that let users make 10 minutes of free SkypeOut. It would be interesting to get a better idea how many people are using SkypeOut and SkypeIn on a regular basis, and how much revenue is being made. Skype, by the way, has now been downloaded more than 131 million times, and it has more than 40 million registered users. With those kind of numbers and the acquisition of DialPad by Yahoo, is it just a matter of time before someone - Microsoft, Google - makes a takeover offer for Skype?
