By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Almost one-quarter of U.S. Web users have made a phone call via the Web with Skype, Vonage or some other VOIP service, according to Pew Internet. A new report from Pew Internet sheds some light on why Microsoft felt it necessary to pay $8.5 billion for voice over IP giant Skype this month. Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of U.S. adult Web users, or 19 percent of all American adults, have made calls online using Skype, Vonage or some other VOIP service, the research organization said May 30. Some 5 percent of Web users are making calls online on any given day. Pew cobbled its findings from calling and polling 2,277 adults aged 18 and over from April 26 to May 22, 2011.
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