New high watermark: 19 million concurrent users with Skype dialtone

Guest post by Jean Mercier, the Skype Numerologist

Only three weeks, and the second time this year that Skype adds a million concurrent users online in only 3 weeks, (this is a record speed) and also the fifth million milestone this year, another absolute record. And the growth goes on despite competing products, lawsuits, new owners, eBay, police and intelligence agencies threats and unhappiness, ...

I am really interested to see the quarterly results of Skype within eBay, and perhaps one of my previous earnings predictions will be way too low.

Skype dial tone: 17 million simultaneous online, 23 March 2009.

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