MySpace and Skype Partner

In one of the more common sense deals in the telecommunications industry, Skype has agreed to partner with MySpace to empower their huge social community to make voice calls. MySpace will be introducing a new IM client that will also have the Skype engine built in. The service has been launched in beta and should be available to the masses in early 2008.

A great move for Skype as it will allow them to tap into a new market of social community users, mostly here in the US , an area where they are extremely weak. For those of us in prepaid, we really don't have much to worry about as this youth market was not big on prepaid calling cards in the first place, so our markets should not be eroded any further by this deal. It may have a small effect on prepaid mobile consumption but I don't think anything of note... young people just love to talk on the phone anyways so I think they will just end up talking more!