Comments on: Skype over Verizon: Skype Becomes a Marketing Weapon in the Carrier Arsenal – Initial Analysis

By: Skype over Verizon: Skype Becomes a Marketing Weapon in the Carrier Arsenal

Skype over Verizon: Skype Becomes a Marketing Weapon in the Carrier Arsenal — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:32:38 +0000

[...] … Has the potential to add 90 million Verizon customers to Skype’s user base Verizon customers can call over 500 million Skype accounts worldwide at no cost (probably about 100 million active accounts) SkypeOut becomes the de facto replacement for all Verizon’s other consumer international calling activity, especially for calls to those 44 countries on Skype’s Unlimited World Calling plans. Go to item [...]

By: Skype mobile on Verizon Launch: It’s About the User Experience | Voice on the Web

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:48:19 +0000

[...] If there was one overriding theme that came out of the press conference today, it was “it’s about the user experience”. Skype’s Russ Shaw emphasized this during our CES interview in January; Josh Silverman, Skype CEO and John Stratton, Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer, reinforced this during the Mobile World Congress press conference. [...]

By: Skype’s SILK Codec: Working Towards Adoption as a Standard | Voice on the Web

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:41:33 +0000

[...] will it be used in the Skype clients being developed for use by Verizon customers due to the need to link the user’s smartphone to Verizon’s Skype gateway using the underlying [...]

By: Skype for Mobile – Now Focusing a True Skype User Experience | Voice on the Web

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:36:32 +0000

[...] Lite served as a beta product for building expertise with the architecture and user experience that is now about to be implemented by Skype over Verizon. But Skype Lite, as offered, had no formal carrier support. However, a key business aspect of this [...]