When you are number one, you have a permanent bull's-eye on your back and such is the case with Skype, the company that generates a hundred thousand downloads in the time it takes some of us to have lunch. By the time I post this there will be over 50,000,000 Skype downloads. Still, not as many as McDonalds has served but impressive nonetheless and more Atkins-friendly to boot.So should it come as a surprise that Skype competitors are are lined up many-deep to try to unseat the current download champ from their lofty perch? When Tom Keating recently wrote PhoneGAIM Targets Skype, I had to stop and take notice because these guys have a great piece of software that could really legitimately challenge Skype.Tom reports that the software allows pc to phone service but more importantly allows for free VoIP calls between IM users such as ICQ, AOL and MSN!How does Skype fight such an open system and with 50 million downloads do they even need to? We will see how the VoIP community responds to this new and more open offering and I am looking forward to seeing a new download meter appear on www.phonegaim.com.
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Nobody has mentioned PhoneGAIM's sound quality. That is a huge difference in favor of Skype, if PG doesn't compare. And sadly, that is the case for most of Skype's competitors.
Dear sir
For me SKYPE doens't work in a efficient way, no customer relationship, no customer follow up at all. May be because of quick growing process.
For unknown reasons was stopped to use it and I can't explain why, nor them talk to me, although I have two international credit cards and no credit problems:
- six months ago I succeeded to dowlonad the program, make may first credit transfer using Martercard International and also made many calls in Brazil and abroad as well;
- noticing that my credits were being reduzed my problems started when I decided to make my second credit transfer, as it was refused several times . I used Mastercard, Visa and Money brokers as well. No way !!!
No way, always refused.
I complained many times but it seems that I am always talking to a comoputer, to nowbody. To me this is seeming the start of Skype ending or selling to any investor
Have also sent many e-mals complaining, but no answer at all.
What is happening to these guys ???
This is becoming umbeareable.
I want to change to another system.
They seem to are drunk with own succeess...