[Asterisk-Users] Skype purchased by Ebay 2.6 Billion

[Matt]

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
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Race Vanderdecken" <asteriskusers at codetyrant.com>
To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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
>
>
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