[technology taskforce] CNBC : What Happened to Skype ?

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

QUESTION: Can Telegram, Signal or any other similar app call landline phone
numbers anywhere cheaply from anywhere in the world WITHOUT first requiring
a phone number (like Google Voice)?

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023, 7:50 pm Glenn McKnight, <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 13:36, Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google via ttf <
> ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
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>> I've done more than a few Skype calls (voice primarily) recently to TT
>> businesses who refuse to use WhatsApp or similar. Flawless and still quite
>> inexpensive.
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2023, 7:08 pm Carlton Samuels via ttf, <
>> ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
>>
>>> ..as the world turns eh.
>>>
>>> I still love the Skype sound but hardly use it now. Cannibalization of
>>> the user base by competing Teams by MS plus the tenuous link to
>>> complementary goods in the MS world is the writing on the wall.
>>>
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>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 10:22, Dev Anand Teelucksingh via ttf <
>>> ttf at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At its height, Skype – a telecommunications app founded by Scandinavian
>>>> entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and Estonian engineers Ahti
>>>> Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn and Toivo Annus – had 560 million
>>>> registered users. In 2005, just two years after its launch, the app was
>>>> acquired by eBay. Later, a majority stake was sold to private equity firm
>>>> Silver Lake. Microsoft then acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion. While
>>>> it was revolutionary in its time, Skype’s journey has been full of ups and
>>>> downs. Now that Microsoft has rival Teams, the future of Skype is
>>>> uncertain. CNBC explores the company’s past, present and what’s next for
>>>> the company.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5MNTKLnns
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