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Microsoft quietly axes Skype credit and phone number sales to push subscriptions
Skype has permanently halted credit and phone number sales as Microsoft pushes users toward monthly subscriptions.
In March 2020, though, Microsoft revealed that Skype had spiked to 40 million daily users, as people sought ways to stay in touch with loved ones during lockdown. This, it said, represented a 70 percent month-on-month increase, implying that its usual daily activity was around 23.5 million — though it didn’t detail how many of these people were Skype-to-Skype. So in short, it’s likely that the changes enacted last week impact tens of millions of people who used Skype for its phone-functionality specifically — a function that modern messaging apps like WhatsApp don’t have (though Zoom does offer a product called Phone that’s targeted more at the business market).
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