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Really only 8 million paying users? That sounds very low... given it is the only online company other than adwords with my credit card details.


8.8M that made a transaction in that quarter, which if you project forward with the current numbers would equate to 5.8% of active users making a payment

not bad in terms of a freemium conversion rate and I think some of it can be explained with:

* credits now have a longer expiry date, so you can bulk purchase and hoard credit

* US and Canada calling became free

* negative network effect of more people using skype = less people that you require the dialout feature to reach


US and Canada calling became free? As far as I know that only happened for part of 2006. In addition to calling 1-800 numbers being free.




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