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Millions left cut off by Skypecast closure
From the 1st September 2008 Skype took the decision to retire Skypecasts from active service for the immediate future. Skypecast was one of the worlds favourite communications tool with some 80 million plus cast users, however Skype declared that Skypecast wasn’t quite measuring up to user expectations. Most users who frequently used Skypecasts knew of the slowly declining quality of service, but never expected the service to be completely cut-off at such short notice. I believe Skype didn't realise that many thousands of users had very special close communities that relied heavily on Skype as their only means of social communication, and cutting those people off from everyone they talk to every day has indeed had a detrimental effect to their daily lives. Some of the people who have been most effected by the untimely closure are disabled, partially sighted and blind users who have little or no other means to socialise outside the confines of their homes. There are alternatives to Skypecast however unless all the affected users join the other services, they will find it almost impossible to communicate as they did before the closure. I don't understand why Skype couldn't just create a new and improved version of the cast infrastructure and introduce it to accomodate their many millions of cast users. Admittedly the system was flawed, and was often attacked by malicious hackers, people who just sought fun by disrupting others users casts. I personally think Skype should carefully reconsider what they have done to the internet communities that relied upon Skypecasts and come up with a reliable long-term solution before they lose all their customers.
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Contributor's Note
I would appreciate any comments or thoughts you might have as an existing Skype user, do you think their decision to close the casts was either right or fair?
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I've never used it but I would agree it's unfortunate indeed! Finding a similar service, especially one without exorbitant cost could be a problem. Too bad "someone" couldn't pick it up as a public service kind of thing.
It has ZERO to do with fair or even good service. There is only one reason a company with that many subscribers shutsdown, $$$ and $ Good Article
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