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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

- Niklas Zennstrom
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Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

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

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

The Chinese market is very, very unique.

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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.