Usage and Traffic
Users may have more than one account; it is not possible to count users, only accounts.
The volume of international traffic routed via Skype is significant. It has become the largest international voice carrier (by minutes of calls).
In January 2011, after the release of video calling on the Skype client for iPhone, Skype reached a record 27 million simultaneous online users. This record was broken with 29 million simultaneous online users on 21 February 2011, and again on 28 March 2011 with 30 million online users. On 25 February 2012, Skype announced that it has over 32 million users for the first time ever. As of 5 March 2012, it has broken to 36 million simultaneous online users. In June 2012, Skype had surpassed 70 million downloads on an Android Device.
On 19 July 2012, Microsoft has announced that Skype users have logged 115 billion minutes of calls over the quarter, up 50% since the last quarter.
Read more about this topic: Skype
Famous quotes containing the words usage and/or traffic:
“I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)
“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)