Skype Going Mainstream In A Big Way

An Associated Press story that moved in the Detroit News tells me that the Skype phenomena is gaining traction. It’s time for the carriers to start looking over their shoulder, take off those blinders, rose colored glasses and sober up.

While all the initial concerns about Skype remain, you can’t stop a freight train to quickly. And Skype is becoming that freight train in the VoIP and messaging world.

What’s amazing to me is that none of the IM services, other than ICQ ever grew with the kind of frenzy as Skype. The difference in my mind is that Skype has become a lifestyle thing with the mobile set, while all of the other direct connecting IM types of services, sans ICQ, were still viewed as intrusive. While they’re no different than Skype, something about Skype made it sexy for people to try.

When I read articles like this, one has to realize just how far, and how fast Skype has become a part of people’s everyday lives.