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| SkypeIn, dial a Skype user from your landline |
| Friday, April 15, 2005 at 20:05 by Rich Kavanagh |
Internet telephony firm Skype today announced the public beta launch of Skype Voicemail, a new service which enables users to manage incoming voicemail messages, making their Skype usage more ubiquitous.
Skype Voicemail customers can receive a voicemail message up to 10 minutes long from any other Skype user or with the use of SkypeIn, even a traditional phone. Skype Voicemail customers may record their own personalized voicemail greeting, playback their messages, even while offline, and send incoming calls to voicemail if they away, offline or simply busy on another call.
This new offering coincides with another major milestone for Skype: the one-hundredth-millionth download of the software, as recorded today. Skype has now enabled more than 7 billion minutes of talk time for users worldwide, further establishing them in the ever-growing Voice over IP (VoIP) market.
Niklas Zennstrom, Skype CEO and co-founder said,
"Skype is setting new standards for modern communications by expanding premium services that extend Skype portability, mobility and ubiquity across a variety of platforms, including the traditional phone network. SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail enhance the basic free Skype and now allows friends, family and colleagues not connected to the Internet an inexpensive and convenient way to contact members of our global user base. With Skype's new premium offerings, travellers will now be able to save thousands of dollars on roaming charges.
The dramatic and exponential growth of downloads and the time devoted by Skype users to communication via Skype demonstrates consumers' and professionals' enjoyment of our continual service improvements, and the viral power of our loyal user base. Skype is simple to use and easy to share, and the marketplace is responding by making Skype its first choice in Internet telephony."
Another new service also launched today is SkypeIn which allows customers to choose a country and area code and they are then assigned a regular telephone number. Anyone may call the SkypeIn user at their SkypeIn number wherever the user travels, providing huge cost savings compared to mobile roaming rates and flexibility for the Skype user to receive calls at home, at the office or at a hotel anywhere.
SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail complement Skype's first premium service, SkypeOut, which allows global calling to public telephone numbers for local rates. More than 1.2 million people are now using SkypeOut.
Skype is the leading the consumer VoIP market worldwide, with more than 35 million registered users, increasing by more than 150,000 new users per day.
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| Me and a friend have been using both SkypeIn and SkypeOut for a month or two now.
Only problem is the SkypeIn number is a London number, so not many local friends use it (London being some 200 miles away) its not _that_ cheap for them..
Add to this a Skype/SIP gateway and I have a normal portable phone on it + handsfree and its a god send.
Skype rocks, and always has done from the very beginning. |
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| Skype is good...sometimes, but you want a cheap direct dial service without using computer...check this out here: http://www.justadial.com |
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| This is tremendously unbelievable. Thanx to skype authorities. However, is this service extended to landlines of non-subscribers? |
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