Barely 3 months after eBay sold most of Skype to an investor group ( led by Silver Lake and includes Joltid Limited and certain affiliated parties, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the business at $2.75 billion. eBay retains an approximately 30 percent equity investment in Skype), Skype managed to make an historic deal with Verizon Wireless to allow Skype calls on their network.