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Businesses Discover Skype

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the catching-on dept.

prostoalex writes "Businesses are starting to pay closer attention to Skype as executives discover that VoIP application can cut the long distance and international call costs. News.com mentions two companies - Aruba Wireless Networks and Ruhrpumpen. The former placed a Skype button on its Web page, the latter put the Skype usernames in its intranet employee directory."

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  1. Re:Not for all... by aldoman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Demonstrate that you can leverage more synergy out of international business team co-ordination and that you can aggregate e-service benefits with your B2B clients. Expose the incredible ROI that such a C2C product offers.

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  2. Here's something to prove it wrong by adeydas · · Score: 0, Troll

    To call a friend somewhere else in India (that is an STD call), I pay Rs. 5 per minute. With Skype, I need to pay Rs. 10, so where is the profit?!

  3. Re:Unknown connections by buserror · · Score: 0, Troll

    I had no peers, zero, I was giving it a try for the first time. And I have no peers in taiwan, hungaria, russia nor any of the like of the domains "Little Snitch" was telling me skype was trying to connect to.