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ACORN-REDECOM Conference

New Technologies and its Challenges for Telecommunications Regulation in Latin America Brasilia May 14-15

Christopher Libertelli Senior Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs Skype | Americas

Skype is software for enabling the world’s conversations

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Skype is one of the fastest adopted technologies in history

Skype Global Registered Users

(Millions)

400k

new users

per day*

* As of Q4 2009 based on Skype data

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More than 250 billion minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calls

Skype-to-Skype Calls in Minutes

(Billions) * As of Q4 2009, Skype users made cumulative 250 billion minutes of S2S calls since inception

Skype is for making free Skype-to-Skype calls

Skype is now the largest provider of international calls

* Based on independent research from Telegeography January 2010

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Percentage based on international calling minutes

Skype is for rich, high quality video calls

More than 36% of Skype-to-Skype minutes include video

Our platform goal is ubiquity enabling conversations everywhere

Skype is partnering with mobile carriers

Low rates on calls to phones and mobiles Never miss your Skype calls Free Skype-to- Skype calls and IM

The Shift to the Cloud: Data Points

What is Cloud Computing? Gartner defines it as: “a style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service' using Internet technologies to multiple external customers”

The Shift to the Cloud: Data Points

$42B

spending on IT cloud services by 2012, with more enterprises considering and adopting cloud

• fferings due to

current economic woes

The Shift to the Cloud: Data Points

$18B

Worldwide Unified Communications product revenues by 2012

The Shift to the Cloud: Data Points

58% say cloud computing will cause a radical shift in IT 47% are already using it

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researching it Just 18% call cloud computing a "passing fad"

The Shift to the Cloud: Data Points

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Skype in Brazil

Skype in Brazil

Principle VOIP/TDM Destinations | Year End 2009

Minutos Entrantes (miles de millones) México China India Filipinas Brasil Polonia Colombia Rusia Indonesia El Salvador Guatemala Tailandia Argentina Nigeria Israel Senegal : TeleGeography Research, 2009

Brasil is top 5 traffic destination

Who Uses Skype in Brazil?

Skew slightly male Concentrated in younger

• nline demographics

2 in 5 have family or friends living outside of Brasil 1 in 4 travel regularly for business or pleasure

Who Uses Skype in Brazil?

92% use instant messaging 83% have tried video calling Over 1/4 use to call family & friends internationally 1/3 have mobile net access

Skype and Public Policy

A policy framework that places broadband consumers at the center of a growing ecosystem built on:

• Universal, Affordable and Open Networks
• “Multi-modal” competition
• Transparency

Virtuous Cycle of Reinforcing Investments

Skype APIs/SDK Embedded CE devices Users Operators and Web Developers

Skype and Public Policy

• Universal, Affordable and Open Networks
• Repurposing universal service support to broadband

and away from circuit switched infrastructure

• Openness built on nondiscrimination and case by

case adjudications to control unintended consequences of network neutrality rules

Skype and Public Policy

• Multi-modal competition: how much competition is

enough in mobile?

Cullen and Shcherbakov: Significant customer switching costs: $230 USD. Complex empirical model including persistent unobserved consumer heterogeneity in tastes for handset-carrier combinations as well as the possibility

• f strategic, dynamic, decision making on the part of consumers.

Skype and Public Policy

• Customer sovereignty through transparency. A simple

quality label for Skype users

Skype and Public Policy

• Crowd-sourcing broadband measurement through M-Lab

www.measurementlab.net

Appendix

Cullen and Shcherbakov http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7020438577

Obrigado pela atenção!