Looks like Skype is seeing some growing pains. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Skype is responsible 12 percent of international voice calls--so it's no wonder the company might be experiencing some issues rising to that scale.
VoIP Watch noted from one of his contacts that Skype had become unavailable once again on Sunday. According to the Skype site, some users were having trouble "opening Payment In Client window, making a call to Online number, making a purchase or using any other service." Users may have also seen an error message like "Internal error" on the web or "Check your connection" in their Skype Client. The company is currently investigating the issue. It does not seem like the problems were widespread.
Just last week, Skype users experienced issues logging in to Skype. Those who had logged in before the outage had no problem using the service, but those who tried to log in during the outage could not.
For more:
- here's the VoIP Watch page [1]
- here's the Skype page [2]
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[6]Telegeography: 12% of international calling is on Skype [7] [3]
Links:
[1] http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2010/01/skype-has-another-outage.html
[2] http://heartbeat.skype.com/2010/01/problems_with_services.html
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/post-it-expo-continuting-mobile-voip-debate/2010-01-25
[4] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/it-expo-faster-networks-and-beyond-best-effort/2010-01-25
[5] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/skype-be-relevant-voip-must-go-mobile/2010-01-22
[6] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/skype-ceo-makes-case-video-communication/2010-01-21
[7] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/12-international-calling-skype/2010-01-19