VoIP banned in China? No way, Skype is growing fast
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Whether the Chinese censorship on VoIP is very questionable, whether Tom Online statistics are inflated. Either way, it’s impressive. Tom Online, the local Skype partner, claims to register about 100,000 users a day(!), its user base as big as 23.5 million, “and these figures almost certainly underestimate the true size of the audience”, says VNUNet. If this is true, Skype Chinese users would represent almost 17% of the 136 million worldwide users.
Although we don’t know much about the practice of ban in China, this wouldn’t a surprise if the Chinese government quietly makes some rooms for Skype. The company blog last month reported how it did for a promotion campaign with Dazhong. “Dazhong has 92 stores and is one of the top four electronics chain stores in China. In Beijing, they have more than half of the market share, and this was one of our first retail promos in mainland China.”
Nov 14, 2006 | By Nuno
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[…] With all of the unusual and tough to believe sometimes comings and goings this year you’ve got to look at the folks who really contributed, intentionally or not, to the bigger picture, for instance China. Will we look at some point with 20/20 hindsight and see Niklas Zennström’s Skype was instrumental in the tipping point kind of way in connecting peeps and bringing change along against the grain. And it’s not just Skype in China, or other such VoIP services innovating or, importantly, prodding gently, ehemm, the comms industry economics back from the extortive call pricing schemes they’ve concocted. But I digress. […]