Skype Setup

Skype Setup
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Skype
is a proprietary voice-over-Internet Protocol service and software
application originally created by Niklas Zennström, and owned by
Microsoft since 2011.
The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice, video, and
instant messaging over the Internet. Phone calls may be placed to
recipients on the traditional telephone networks. Calls to other users
within the Skype service are free of charge, while calls to landline
telephones and mobile phones are charged via a debit-based user account
system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features,
including file transfer, and videoconferencing. Competitors include SIP
and H.323-based services, such as Empathy, Linphone, Ekiga as well as
the Google Talk service.
Skype has 663 million registered users as of September 2011. The network
is operated by Microsoft, which has its Skype division headquarters in
Luxembourg. Most of the development team and 44% of the overall
employees of the division are situated in the offices of Tallinn and
Tartu, Estonia.
Unlike most VoIP services, Skype is a hybrid peer-to-peer and
client–server system, and makes use of background processing on
computers running Skype software; the original name proposed – Sky
peer-to-peer – reflects this.
Some network administrators have banned Skype on corporate, government,
home, and education networks, citing reasons such as inappropriate usage
of resources, excessive bandwidth usage, and security concerns.

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