Skype is both a product and the name of the company. Skype is a proprietary voice-over-Internet Protocol service and software application. The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice, video, and instant messaging over the Internet. Phone calls may be placed to recipients on the traditional telephone networks.
In term of the organization, Skype is a Global Internet Telephony Company™ based in Luxembourg. It was founded in Sep 2002 by Niklas Zennstrom.
Skype is an easy-to-use program that is free to download and allows free video calls to anywhere in the world when calling another Skype user.
The app provides a quick, easy, and cheap way for subscribers to make VoIP telephone calls.
Skype released its product in the fall of 2003, but it started as company and product development in the spring, 6 months earlier. Niklas Zennström is CEO and co-founder of Skype and Janus Friis acts as VP of Strategy and co-founder.
Skype bypasses the traditional phone system by routing calls and video over the Internet, just like email and Web pages. The calls vault effortlessly over national borders, ignoring the fences that phone companies put up in the form of international calling charges. Usernames take the place of phone numbers.
Telecommunications application of Skype
