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One Million Simultaneous Users on Skype

October 20, 2004.


Today Skype reached a new milestone and had more than 1 million simultaneous users globally connected to each other at the same time. As of Tuesday, October 19, Skype has served more than 2 billion minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calling.


Skype is the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history, the previous others were Netscape, ICQ, Hotmail & KaZaA. More than 12.9 million users from every country in the world account for over 28 million downloads of Skype software in the first 14 months. 


Thank you to everyone for your support.

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