Skype is touting its growth and enterprise uptake, claiming it now adds 380,000 users per day and that one-third of registered members use the VoIP service for business purposes. The end-of-year head count of 405 million registered users used 2.6 billion SkypeOut minutes in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The company is pushing small and medium-sized enterprise adoption of Skype with the release of Skype 4.0, which took three years to develop and offers "super wideband audio." A survey of Skype for Business users found that 80 percent of users reported an increase in productivity and employee collaboration by using the product and 62 percent said Skype allowed for better communication with customers.
"There has never been a better time than now for enterprises - particularly small to medium businesses - to consider switching to Skype for their communications," Dan Neary, Skype's vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific told mis-asia.com. "In this type of environment people are looking for cost savings wherever they can find them, they are looking to ‘recession-proof' their businesses. They don't want to fly from A to B, they want to do video-conferencing."
Skype would love to continue to expand its presence in enterprise telephony, as the market could substantially increase Skype's bottom line.
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- see the mis-asia.com piece here
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