Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennströmis a Swedish entrepreneur best known for founding several high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis including Skype and Kazaa. More recently he founded the technology investment firm Atomico and has become a significant figurehead for entrepreneurs in the tech sector. Zennström is also the co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
CountrySweden
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Until now, we've been primarily focused on PCs. But our customers want a more ubiquitous experience. And, with a service for mobile phones, we plan to deliver this.
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Yes the calls are free. But you're paying for the mobile access and that drives usage and something that drives usage is good for the operators.
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At the office, we actually don't have a land phone line. We use Skype mostly, and mobile phones to receive calls from people not on Skype.
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At no charge, if they both have the software installed. Or by using SkypeOut if they need to call a land line or mobile at low rates.
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With the release of our new software, it's never been easier for people to talk to one another for free, and now they can see each other with video as well.
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There are different rumors every day. We don't comment on rumors. When we make deals, we announce them.
In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.
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What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
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We have a much higher penetration in countries like Brazil and Poland, where phone rates are high and service is hit or miss in some places.
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We don't have any launch dates yet for any of those platforms. It's going to be wonderful to be able to make a Skype call from cell phones or PDAs.
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It was more a technical proof of concept that it was possible to transfer files between two end users rather than going through servers.
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Skype to Skype lets you call anyone else in the world who has downloaded the Skype application on their computer or PDA, for free.
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We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg.
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We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.