{"id":5402,"date":"2009-03-23T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2016-06-27T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:01:53","slug":"skype-becomes-another-voip-trunking-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/skype-becomes-another-voip-trunking-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype becomes another VoIP trunking provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard being different.<\/p>\n<p>For years Skype has been something different. A new kind of communications company. One that does all the things that a cutting-edge 2.0 new age telecommunications company should be doing.<\/p>\n<p>But today it seems that they&#8217;ve come to the reality that sometimes you just have to be like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/03\/22\/skype-now-means-business-friends-the-sip-world\/\">launch of Skype for SIP<\/a>, a beta program that gives you Skype trunking functionality for your SIP based VoIP PBX systems, is big news for many in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Except isn&#8217;t this just a me-too trunking service? A way for businesses to take advantage of the economies offered by Skype&#8217;s peer-to-peer network.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry folks. There is nothing big here except cheap minutes. The same thing that most in the industry detest hearing from VoIP providers.<\/p>\n<p>Innovation and cutting edge doesn&#8217;t always pay the bills. Today we found out Skype knows this. And that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re once again going into minute stealer mode.<\/p>\n<p>There is money in &#8220;plumbing.&#8221; Especially if yours is cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Get all of your <a title=\"skype hardware\" href=\"\/skype\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Skype Hardware');\">Skype Hardware<\/a> at VoIP Supply!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard being different. For years Skype has been something different. A new kind of communications company. One that does all the things that a cutting-edge 2.0 new age telecommunications company should be doing. But today it seems that they&#8217;ve come to the reality that sometimes you just have to be like everyone else. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188423,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions\/188423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}