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Skype Slips Into Business
By Larry Hendrick | August 10, 2006
I have been a fan of Skype since last year when I was talking to Denmark several times for interviews for Motivation on the Run. Today I use it for work, from the home office, rather than tie up the home line.
It works extremely well, most of the time, and the call quality is usually very good. There is still room for improvements, but overall the software is a part of my daily use. Thanks to Troy Worman for the link.
August 07, 2006 (Computerworld) — Two years ago, Mark Ehr and a few co-workers began using Skype to communicate between Proxima Technology Inc.’s Denver headquarters and its offices in Sydney, Australia, and Windsor, England. “I’d spent hours talking to Sydney,” says Ehr, director of product marketing at the 70-person software company. Luxembourg-based Skype Ltd.’s peer-to-peer voice-over-IP software routes calls over the public Internet, offers good voice quality and supports conference calls — and it’s free, he says.
Soon, top executives began using Skype for internal calls. “That set the tone for the rest of the company,” Ehr says, and today Skype is the primary means of making intracompany calls at Proxima. Skype has also allowed Proxima to put off a planned migration to an internal VoIP telephony system.