Skype slashes rates for international wireline, wireless calls

Skype this week will start offering plans to let users call international wireline and wireless phones at significantly lower rates than its current pay-as-you-go services.Starting on Thursday, Skype will offer subscriptions that start as low as US$1.09 per month and that offer rates starting at US$0.01 per minute when dialing to “almost any destination around the globe.”To read this Computerworld report in full, see:
www.computerworld.com.au/article/345504/skype_slashes_rates_international_wireline_wireless_calls/Also see:Skype intros new mobile calling plans to 170 countries
Skype’s VoIP calling service has been synonymous with free computer-to-computer calls for so long, it’s easy to overlook the company’s calling plans to landlines and mobile phones.Those who do buy Skype Credit and use Skype plans to call phones rather than computers know that making calls to a mobile phone can easily cost US$0.25 per minute. That’s a steep fee compared to rates as low as 2 or 3 cents per minute to call a landline, depending on the country in question.
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