Skype Problems

Once popular, Skype, may be forced to shut down its operations due to voip patent disputes. Skype owner, EBAY, plans to go to trial with Joltid Limited in mid-2010. (Joltid licenses peer to peer technology to Skype.)

I presume if a settlement cannot be made, that EBAY will shutdown Skype. EBAY acquired Skype in late 2005 for $2.1 billion with the goal of leveraging Skype's 52 million registered users and 2 million paying customers for cross sell opportunities. It does not appear that EBAY has re-couped its $2.1B investment.

EBAY also is involved in litigation with Net2Phone about VoIP patents. But Vonage, Sprint, Paetec, Nuvox, Broadvox, Covad and VoxPath, among others, have been involved in VoIP patent disputes since 2007.

 

Thanks,
David Chao
The Web Conferencing Expert

Comments

[David Chao]

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[Jeremy Harding]

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