anyone knows how skype provide world wide call service to regular phones by voip at such low rate?
is this by partnerships with various * isps? Best Regards Matt ____________________________________________ High Performance Gigabit Clustering Appliance http://www.xgforce.com/loadbalancer.html eClustering Service http://www.xgforce.com/eService.html Gigabit 3U Tera Servers http://www.xgforce.com/teraserver.html Gigabit 2U Servers http://www.xgforce.com/server2u.html Gigabit 1U Servers http://www.xgforce.com/server1u.html __________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Race Vanderdecken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Skype purchased by Ebay 2.6 Billion > Hmmm, > > Let me see. > > "Skype has 54 million registered users that the online retailer > eBay can add to its marketing arsenal. The initial payment of $2.6 > billion values those registered users at just more than $48 each" > > Skype has current revenue of about $60,000,000 a year. > > $60,000,000 divided by 54,000,000 customers = $1.11 dollars per > customer per year. > > So, eBay just paid $48 for a customer that generates $1.11 a > year. That is 43 years for eBay to get back their money if each customer > continues at the current rate. > > But somehow eBay is going to get these fanatic spenders to spend > more money. My 15 year old son has Skype account and buy/sells on eBay. > So that is one new customer they won't get. > > If you take the normal mass mailing return rate of about 3% and > apply it here then eBay just paid $2,600,000,000 for 1,620,000 customers > or > $1,604 per realistic paying customer. > > Wasn't AOL going to take control of the internet with its buy of > Time Warner? > Wasn't Sony going to control the Walkman world with its buy of > the Movie and Song Catalogs? > Wasn't Amazon.com going to control not only the online book > market but also all the catalog stuff? > > These guys at eBay are not very bright, They must be in there > twenties or something. > > This is the same Hype, rhymes with Skype, which we all heard in > the 90's and during the crash. "We no have 100 zillion customers that > have our service for free and they will begin to pay us money for the > free service and we will control the world and get rich by giving things > away!" > > "How you ask, while we will pay $1600 per customer, charge them > nothing, and make if up in the fantastic volume pricing we are going to > do." > > sad, and I thought the government (pick Local, County, State, > Federal) doing a bad job after Katrina was the only disaster this week. > > > Race "the tyrant" Vanderdecken > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
