Internet Life

Skype Launches Amazingly Cheap Calling Plan

Unlimited long-distance calling service rolled out by Skype

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

22nd of April 2008, 20:06 GMT

Adjust text size:

Skype launched on Monday an unlimited calling plan for over a third of the world's population as the parent company states which allows consumers to initiate

calls with amazingly cheap subscriptions. The new monthly subscriptions lets Skype customers to call landline numbers in 34 countries around the world for prices starting at 2.95 euros per month.

"This move is a natural step for Skype. Skype was founded on the principle of making free voice and video calls available to people all around the world. And now we're making it even easier for the Skype community to call their friends and family who are not yet on Skype. Our subscriptions give people an easy, hassle-free choice for how and when they want to catch up with their loved ones," Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at Skype commented.

As you know, Skype's downloadable application provides free VoIP calls on the web but, thanks to the new calling plan, interested consumers have the chance to initiate landline calls for as much as 2.95 euros per month. For instance, the "Unlimited Country" calling plan includes unlimited calls to landlines in the European country of your choice for 2.95 euros per month. However, in case you choose the "Unlimited World" plan, you have to pay 8.95 euros per month but you also get much more: unlimited calls to landlines in 34 countries worldwide.

"For example if you live in London, for just �2.95 a month, you can call your grandmother in Poland, whenever you like, talk for up to six hours at a time, and not worry about how much it's costing you. Your grandmother doesn't need to understand the internet. You just use your Skype subscription to make the call and she just picks up the phone," the Skype official added.

TAGS:

skype | landline | voip

SEARCH THE NEWS ARCHIVE :

Today's News | Yesterday's News | News Archive

User opinions:

No user comments yet.

Be the first to express your opinion using the form below!

Share your opinion:

SUBMIT PROGRAM \| ADVERTISE \| GET HELP \| SEND US FEEDBACK \| RSS FEEDS \| ENTER NEWS SITE \| ENGLISH BOARD \| ROMANIAN FORUM
© 2001 - 2008 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Softpedia™ and the Softpedia™ logo are registered trademarks of SoftNews NET SRL.	Copyright Information \| Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use \| Update your software \| Archive

NEWS CATEGORIES: