Ebay-owned P2P-based VoIP provider Skype announced this morning it has hit a big milestone — 100 million registered users. That’s a whole lot of free phone calling going on given that only a small fraction (10 million or so) of Skype’s users use the service’s premium Skype Out function.
It also represents very rapid growth, with Skype’s registered user base doubling since just September. As company founder Niklas Zennstrom notes in the press release, Skype has hit this high-point in less than two and a half years. And as the figures in the table below note, Skype has added around five million net new users in less than one month.
| Skype Registered Users | ||
| (in mil.) | ||
| Quarterly | ||
| Total | Additions | |
| Q104 | 4.1 | na |
| Q204 | 6.8 | 2.7 |
| Q304 | 11.5 | 4.7 |
| Q404 | 19.8 | 8.3 |
| Q105 | 32.9 | 13.1 |
| Q205 | 44.1 | 11.2 |
| Q305 | 54.0 | 9.9 |
| Q405 | 74.7 | 20.7 |
| Q105 | 94.6 | 19.9 |
Cynthia Brumfield at 7:11 AM|Comments(0)
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