Every day this community conquers 250000 new users

This months that they were working on the project in total secrecy. Crammed into a hideous building dating from the Soviet era, lost in an industrial area at the exit of Tallinn, "professors cosine" young Estonians worked hard to get out as soon as possible these new models that would finally bring them money. It is now made. Skype, the leader of the communication via the Internet, announced Thursday that he was a partner with four major suppliers network (Belkin, Edge-Core, Netgear and SMC) to introduce the first telephones Wi - Fi using its software. Make telephone calls through the canvas without having to stay behind his PC is now a reality.

"We want to give our users the freedom to move during their conversations and to access Skype wherever they are, to their computers or anywhere at home or at their Office," summarizes Jerome Archambeaud, CEO of Skype France. The new Wi - Fi certified Skype phones will be on sale in the third quarter.

Free calls over the Internet

This innovation is a new turning point for the company less than three years ago. Because, until now, Skype is particularly renowned for its free. Since its launch, on September 29, 2003, more than 115 million people have downloaded on their computer program which allows them to call their families free of charge on the canvas. Two minutes to register the software, a headset, microphone, and the round is played... Every day, this "community" conquers 250,000 new users. A million new customers every four days... Who says better

This spectacular growth visibly seduced us to the eBay auction site, which did not hesitate to spend 2.5 billion, in September 2005, to this SME born in Estonia. A crazy sum for a company whose turnover exceeded only 25 million dollars in the last quarter of 2005. Today, between 7 and 8 of Skype users agree to pay to fixed lines from their computer. It is still little. However, the pace of growth of the virtual operator will rapidly accelerate in the coming months. "We seek the 200 million in revenues this year", said Andrus Purde, Director of marketing for the Estonia. This responsible for 27 years (this is the average age of 215 employees from 23 different countries working in Tallinn) has every chance to meet...

This company, created by three computer cool today aged thirty-two years and extended to end of the arm by a Swedish, Niklas Zennstrom, and one Danish, Janus Friis, now multi-millionaires, indeed followed the pattern developed by Google. Even before to try to earn money, Skype developers wanted reach a critical size to impose their laws. With 115 million users, including one-third of people who use this service more than once a week, the company today has considerable weight. In the late afternoon, more than 7 million surfers discuss live with this software. "We represent about 7 of international telephone communications that are made in the world," said Vincent Oberlé.

Fee for manufacturers

This French engineer, who worked for four years at Texas Instruments, arrived in Skype on July 11, 2005. "They hired me to my knowledge in embedded software", he summarizes. It is no doubt in this sector that is the future of the Estonian company which has its financial headquarters in the Luxembourg and its centre of marketing in London. To be "certified Skype", manufacturers of mobile phones or Pocket PC (electronic agendas that serve as mobile phones) have to pay a royalty to the virtual operator.

"And if there are 1 billion computers on the planet, more than 2 billion mobile phones are now in circulation, summarizes Ott Kaukver, Director of the technology of the Group Department." Launching in the Wi - Fi phones, we we give a huge margin of growth to increase the number of our users. Currently, 250,000 people downloading our software every day. But nothing says that the cap of 1 million new daily users will not be crossed. 1 Million, that sounds better that a quarter of a million, not

Taking all of its competitors, Skype speed hopes soon to dictate its conditions to advertisers and partners. "We have several projects in the pipe that should we bring lots of money, reveals Vincent Oberlé. Everything is still protected by the secret, but our first innovations will soon be out on the market. "Competition is prevented...