top of page
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."

Niklas Zennstrom, Swedish Scientist
Computers, Work, Sense
Standard 
 Customized
"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."

Exlpore more Computers quotes

Quote_1.png
Eraldo Banovac

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."

Niklas Zennstrom, Swedish Scientist
Computers, Work, Sense

Explore more quotes by Niklas Zennstrom

Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting."
People, Network, World
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online."
Fact, First
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines."
Quality, Internet, Voice
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call."
People, Talk
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way."
Family, People, Friends, Want
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
Time, Change, Technology
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet."
People, Internet, Software
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
Country, Countries
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free."
Network, Nothing, Service
Quote_1.png
Niklas Zennstrom
"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."
Movies, Thought
bottom of page