Is Skype not working for everyone right now? Get current Skype outages, status, timeouts and issue reports today.
Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application that specializes in providing VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls
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This graph shows Skype errors and response times for the website over the past day. Website status and slowness is related to downtime for Skype and errors for their site.
This chart above shows Skype error reports submitted in the past 24 hours (one day) compared to the recent average over similar days. The status of Skype is marked as "down" when the number of reported errors is significantly higher than the average errors.
Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application that specializes in providing VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, debit-based calls to landline and mobile telephones, and other features. Skype is available on various desktop, mobile and video game console platforms, and is operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft. As of March 2020, Skype was used by 100 million people on a monthly basis and by 40 million people on a daily basis. First released in August 2003, Skype was the creation of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, in cooperation with four Estonian developers. In September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion. In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay, which attributed to the enterprise a market value of $2.92 billion.