Answers:
There is a software issue explicitly currently cause an outage. The second I read is that they hope to own it resolved within 12-24 hours.
Yes I still hold indistinguishable problem :-( Never thought Skype would crash world all-embracing :-( Here surrounded by South Africa their be other the rumour that our biggest telcoms would block skype ports (Just glad its a software problem on skype's running out :-D )
This is what
http://www.skype.com have to enunciate almost the problem...
"Hello adjectives,
Here’s the up-to-the-minute on the sign-on problem. We’re doing a tour to recouping. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may verbs throughout the daytime. An encouraging number of users can immediately use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods however, but we are surrounded by better shape presently than we be yesterday.
Finally, we’d resembling to dispel a couple of theories that we are still audible range. Neither Wednesday’s planned running of our web-based gift services nor any form of attack be related to the current sign-on issues surrounded by any mode.
We’ll update you again as soon as we can. Thanks for slack tight.
Please see our
http://heartbeat.skype.com/ blog for ongoing updates.
UPDATED 17 August, 2007 11:00 GMT"