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		shubhamjain on Feb 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $2... Skype's use prevails mostly around international calling, video conferencing and professional chats. It isn't really an everyday use thing like WhatsApp which, where dominating, is an entire replacement of SMS. My Skype account gets sparingly used for anything else than talking to a client.

coldtea on Feb 23, 2014 [–]

That could make sense, because that's what I've seen it used for: international calling, video conferencing and professional chats.

Still, wouldn't that amount to more than 30M users?

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