14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
12:56 p.m.
I've played around with Skype quite a bit at work. It is very slick! It uses
http for all data transfers, so it will make it through most firewalls
without a problem (even works around proxies). The voice quality was
startlingly good, especially considering that we have a 1Mbps ADSL line with
no QoS configured on it.
However, the really cool thing about it is that they are now offering phone
calls to normal phone lines throughout Europe at very competitive prices.
Mike
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:01, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Hi Pascal,
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 Pascal.Steichen(a)linux.lu wrote:
Unfortunate though that it's proprietary software...
I was
very surprised to learn that Skype (VoIP software) is at
home in Luxembourg.
If you check http://www.skype.com/company.html , you'll find
that "The Skype Group is headquartered in Luxembourg with offices
also in London and soon in Tallinn."
Yes nice and here is the address (grabbed from a whois request ;) :
Skype Technologies SA
P.O. Box 75538
Luxembourg 1070 AM
Luxembourg From the looks of it, it also seems that the lux.
headquarters
aren't much more than a drop-box (job offers are for Tallinn
and London only). Kind of like AOL, MS, Apple iTunes Europe
probably.
Greets Eric
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