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(13 votes)   At the office, we actually don't have a land phone line. We use Skype mostly, and mobile phones to receive calls from people not on Skype.

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(13 votes)   They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

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(12 votes)   We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg.

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(10 votes)   It was more a technical proof of concept that it was possible to transfer files between two end users rather than going through servers.

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(9 votes)   But that technology enabled the movie industry to make much more revenue. The single largest revenue source for the movie industry is videos.

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(9 votes)   The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

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(9 votes)   Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

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(9 votes)   We have a much higher penetration in countries like Brazil and Poland, where phone rates are high and service is hit or miss in some places.

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(9 votes)   We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

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(8 votes)   At no charge, if they both have the software installed. Or by using SkypeOut if they need to call a land line or mobile at low rates.

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(8 votes)   People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.

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(7 votes)   Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

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(7 votes)   Skype to Skype lets you call anyone else in the world who has downloaded the Skype application on their computer or PDA, for free.

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(7 votes)   We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

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(6 votes)   And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

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