I can't see how Skype was different in 2010 vs 2003. I mean, it provided facility for perfect clarity voice calls over the Internet right away and that never ch

I can't see how Skype was different in 2010 vs 2003. I mean, it provided facility for perfect clarity voice calls over the Internet right away and that never changed (arguably, clarity of a Skype voice call is worse now than it used to be). And it perfectly worked over then-day Internet connections. I had a mediocre quality dial-up in 2003 which was already long in the past for most developed countries, and i used Skype a lot, it worked OK - and when i moved onto 112kbps dedicated line - also considered slowish by developed countries' standards of the day - and Skype calls were literally perfectly clear all the time, every time. Much better than over a landline phone, if you had a headset. So while agreeing with the rest of the article, Skype sounds like a wrong example. It was a total replacement for phone calls from day one. I never made, and maybe received only about 10, calls to/from my U.S. customers since getting on Skype, PSTN immediately lost me as a long-distance client.