Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we’re still just starting.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.