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Skype suffers global outage

23 December 2010 •

Offline supernodes blamed for dropped calls

Popular internet phone service Skype suffered a global outage yesterday afternoon, with users of the service in Europe, the US and Asia experiencing problems signing on. At around 17:00 GMT yest...

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