Skype, the P2P VoIP app from the original Kazaa creators announced today intentions to compete
with other VoIP telephony providers such as Vonage, Packet8 and VoicePulse and provide paid access to standard
telephony.
According to the Australian IT, founder Niklas Zennstrom said the paid service would allow access to standard telephony.
"We allow people to make free phone calls because we don't have the same costs as the phone companies," he said. "We will make money by upselling value-added services. Shortly, we will allow people to make landline calls. We have a small percentage of users who will subscribe."
Mr Zennstrom said he was not keen to take on advertising. "We had lots of advertising with KaZaA, and one of the things we decided with Skype was to do the opposite," he said.
Skype has computed so far almost 12 million downloads.
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Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by softdown