Aswath Weblog: Skype Math Anxiety

Aswath Weblog: Skype Math Anxiety 

Aswath offers good analysis as always. All Skype has done for me is cut into my International calling bills. They are almost gone except for some folks who don’t use Skype.

Skype has moved some of my IM traffic. There is no net savings or cost for IM.

If I Skype for ten minutes a day with Voice I still spend six to eight hours on my CallVantage line or cell phone. Why? Its where the people I need to reach are.

I think we are all spending a lot of time providing analysis and commentary about SKYPE because it’s cool and works on the PC, but really for those of us who are heavy phone users until all the people can be reached on net via SKYPE, not with the marginal Skype Out service we still need real phones.