With an IPO looming, Skype is touting a major new milestone: 25 million concurrent users. The number was reached on Monday for the first time, and the company says it represents a new all-time high.
To put that in some perspective, Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile carrier in the U.S., serves a little more than 100 million customers.
Skype breaks out a couple of other stats in its announcement, including that through the first six months of 2010, 40% of Skype-to-Skype minutes utilized video, not too surprising given the innovations the company has been working on in that area.