Skype Founder Niklas Zennstrom Sees Bright Future For VoIP Company

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company?s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity?s proprietor, eBay.

Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype?s achievement of attaining some 220 million users, and predicted that the company would begin to garner ?substantial income? further down the road. Skype brought in $90 million in revenue last quarter.

I very much agree with Zennstrom?s forecast. Skype, with its 200+ million users, and with what one would presume to be a plan to migrate from an existence almost solely reliant on the end user?s interaction with a PC to one that will operate more massively via dedicated hardware, perhaps even via entirely wireless means.

Certainly, today telecommunications providers in the US and in other parts of the world seem Skype as a vagabond. A globally recognizable rogue agent, if you will. But as Internet service providers increasingly find an overwhelming demand for unlimited access plans that allow for the free use of any number of Web applications - be they portals for digital media or digital voice packets - the eventual possibility that companies like Skype will be afforded the opportunity to serve the end user as long as a broadband connection is able to be made is something that could very well make the VoIP company and others like it the golden nugget many have been claiming it to be.

As those living and breathing via the WWW begin to find wireless solace in fast-paced 3G and 4G technologies (and so on and so forth), it?s very likely the market for Skype will not only grow, but that it will become one charting very significant returns as well.

Of course, such a fate isn?t likely to come about in the very near future. Think several years ahead, to be safe.

Here?s a question to chew on: Are you content to wait that long?

(Mind you, if Google gets its way with the 700MHz spectrum auction to take place in the US, the wait may be lessened greatly.)