Skype, on the other hand, has been in a lot of trouble lately.

In this 2G era, the mobile phone call business is still very important for those communication operators, the market size is not small, and now the Skype program that also implements the charging function is cheap, attracting more and more paying users, which in their eyes is simply brushing their own wool, it is strange to be happy.

After all, Ye Dongqing basically didn't have much investment, just borrowing the network platform they had worked so hard to build, they could make a lot of money from it, and people preferred to make long-term calls through computers instead of mobile phones in order to save phone bills.

In the middle of last year, it was better, and since the second half of the year, it has affected the call business of these communication operators, and since this year, with the launch of many advertisements, more people have been attracted to become registered users of Skype, which has directly affected the business of those companies, including Time Warner Group, Verizon Telecom, AT&T, Comcast Group, etc., all of them are standing opposite Ye Dongqing, and it cannot be said that they are suppressing with all their might, and these giants also know the impact, but the suppression from many aspects is indeed continuing to begin.

Last month, Mexico's América Telecomm officially issued a notice banning Skype from transmitting data on its network, and Deutsche Telekom is launching an investigation into Skype, while also waiting to see the attitude of other EU counterparts, such as France Telecom, and there are also telecom companies in the United Kingdom that make small moves from time to time.

The main reason for all this is that Skype has developed too quickly and moved their cake, so they want to follow the example of Mexico and the American telecommunications company before the situation gets worse and stifle the potential risks, or they feel that they may lose most of the market for the call business as the number of Internet users increases, and they are trying to characterize Skype as a "telecommunications company" and then put a rope on it to limit it.

Recently, there has also been bad news in Washington, because Skype's conversations are encrypted and cannot be intercepted, which makes Skype a perfect tool for criminals.

It's really unjust to say, couldn't it be that without Skype, those criminals wouldn't use prepaid cards to discuss things? It can only be said that there are too many competitors and they are deliberately targeted, and the company's legal department is trying to solve this matter, but Ye Dongqing feels that it is really necessary to think of a way to solve the problem in front of him, but it seems that there is no better solution, and he can't really sell this company at a low price, or according to the ideas of those people, the Skype call fee will be greatly increased by two to three times, which is completely digging his own grave, and it is better to sell it for cash.

In the previous life, Skype's expansion speed was not so fast, but this time it was in the limelight, Ye Dongqing heard that the United States Verizon Telecom Company is also trying to develop similar products recently, he hopes that the other party will develop it, and it is a relatively good kind, and then become a competitor of Skype, at least so that it will not be targeted by Verizon Telecom Company, which is a giant with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, and its influence should not be underestimated, and it exerts a lot of pressure on Skype......

"Its services have impacted the traditional terrestrial fixed telephone service and mobile phone business, and traditional telecom companies need to pay high marketing expenses and infrastructure construction costs when operating these two services. Users generally pay by distance and minute when using these services, so the traditional model is to charge as much as possible from each person, which is the exact opposite of Skype's business model.

We spend zero on acquiring new users and maintaining web traffic, and the only spending is on business development and software development. This is a very good business model for us, it may be very bad for them, but the times are changing, if there is no Skype, there will be other similar products, it cannot be said that Skype has impacted the traditional calling business, it can only be said that the times are different, and more Skype will emerge in the future, such as my company, is developing new products based on this technology, which can realize video calls, across the computer screen and the network, just like face-to-face conversation, it has been successful in the laboratory, and it will probably be put into the market for testing in the next quarter。 ”

Ye Dongqing, dressed in a serious suit, was being interviewed by The New York Times magazine, and he took the initiative to throw an olive branch to the New York Times to make some excuses about the recent lawsuit investigation against Skype.

Whether it can have an effect is unknown for the time being, but he knows that the majority of users must be on his side, otherwise Skype will be banned in the United States, where will these people find such a cheap and secure calling program, which can be regarded as a rebellion against the telecom giants, and he does not shy away from mentioning Skype's wool at the moment, because it is a well-known fact, and some media have tried to portray Skype as a thief.

For example, a newspaper called the Baltimore Sun, the day before yesterday, wrote in an article: "Skype is very cheap to operate, and the entire communication base consists of the network itself and the user's computer, so there is no additional cost for the continuation of the call." Marketing is also cheap because users will spontaneously invite others to join us, and through Facebook, Skype does not have a desktop support system, but instead refers to the system of thousands of users as well as standard Internet services, and monetizes through ancillary services. It's a shame to make money from networks that telecom operators spend a lot of money on. ”

Now Ye Dongqing responded, he tried to make people understand that Skype is also an Internet company, no different from other Internet companies that provide certain services to users, and it is also a part of social development, but it involves the interests of some people, so it is so targeted.

He is a serious New Yorker, and he has also met privately with the majority shareholder of the New York Times, and the reporter sitting in front of Ye Dongqing at this moment did not show too much aggression, and continued to hold the recorder and asked: "So what do you want to express about the statement of connivance at crime?"

"Just a few years ago, I was living at the bottom of society, and I had seen a lot of crimes, which is a very bad thing, but their crimes have nothing to do with Skype, if a person wants to commit a crime, then he can talk face-to-face, he can write letters, he can make phone calls, he can't impose such unreasonable claims on Skype, it's just a tool to make people's lives easier.

If you have to pursue it, the telecommunications companies have a wider range of calling services, and I can cite many examples of criminals calling to discuss things, and there is nothing wrong with the tool itself, but whether it is good or bad depends on the ...... of the individual."