Enterprise-Level Consumers Eager to Adopt Skype

Many business owners are now in eager to integrate Skype technologies in order to enable them enjoy the free and reduced cost Internet telephony services being offered by Skype. Most of them are now looking for new ways to exploit this free Internet telephony Executives from their IT service partners.

Until now, majority of Skype's subscribers are either the small business owners or the consumers who applied the service directly for heir personal use. Many enterprise-level are now eager to introduce Skype to certain class of their employees many of whom are already using Skype.

Revealing his observation, Shane McNulty, head of business development at Skype for Business said "The Company does not target the enterprise directly, but we are seeing these kinds of customers pushing their large systems integrators and business process outsourcers to provide Skype services. While these customers may have had reservations about using Skype – with particular concerns about security and quality of service – they are now simply saying "just make it happen" – for cost reasons. There is also widespread evidence that in most areas of business such concerns are unfounded".

According to Ian Robin, director of Skype for Business, the company now has 17 enterprise customers operating more than 2,000 Skype IDs two of those have more than 10,000 and both in the Far East. Skype has total number of registered users of about 309 million, 30% of which use Skype for at least some business activity. A recent survey conducted by the company suggested that 95% of those business customers experience savings as a result, with a third claiming to have cut their phone bill by 50%.

Voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls between Skype users are free; users pay £2.24 each month for unlimited calls to UK landlines and mobiles, £3.39 for calls within Europe, and £7.99 for calls around the world.