investigation into Skype Technologies S.A.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,8, New College Durham, language: English, abstract: Skype is quite a new software enabling free calls over the Internet (Shaver, 2006). Users save money, because Skype charges nothing for telephone calls between Skype users. Only calling a landline or a mobile phone and receiving incoming calls from a conventional phone or mobile phone are charged (Skype Fast Facts, 2005). This idea is supposed to revolutionize the whole phone market (Powell, 2005). VoIP is the future telecommunications media in Germany. What is Skype's future in Germany?