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Technology Stocks : Skype running hot, turbo-charged on Metcalfe's Law
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To: GPS Info who wrote (123)3/20/2006 2:58:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 170
 
5,759,384 users online. One of the big selling points for Skype is that you don't have to remember a phone number, which nobody can do [except for a few autistic savant people]. With Skype, you just have to know that it's Maurice Winn then look up the Skype phone book. Bingo!

Also, you don't get crank calls. People have to ask to call. At one stage, we had a young man making phone calls during the night, no speaking. Or his cohorts. Very annoying. Telecom New Zealand [the phone company] and the police said they couldn't do anything. How hopeless.

Skype is perfect. No crank calls. No need to have an unlisted number. Any particular person can be turned off any time. There's a record of calls that are made so the police can go and collect death threat people.

Young women in bars won't be asked for their phone number, they'll be asked for their name. Then they'll get "Permission to speak please" messages from the intrepid suitors. They can refuse further contact from particular users. They won't have to unplug their computer at night as people have to do with their telephone. I bet Telecom New Zealand hasn't even considered that as a reason that they are going to go broke.

Even if Telecom is cheaper, it won't be worth using their services. Too much hassle. Too hard to remember phone numbers. People calling at dinner time to sell insurance won't be able to do so. Yes, I know there are opt out listings in some countries, but that's hard work to get onto and I might want to hear from some of them anyway. Tax accountants for example.

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