Skype Offers Unlimited International Skype Telephone Conversations for Just $9.95! 4/29/2008 - 610 views, 2 Comments
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Skype, eBay’s internet telephone service, has just announced a great Skype deal - an unlimited international calling plan for a mere $9.95 monthly fee, allowing Skype telephone conversations to 34 countries including the U.S., Canada, much of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Korea and others. That’s right, for the price of two skinny no-whip double-decaf mochaccinos you can make a Skype phone call to over a third of the world’s population, as long as it’s to a land-line phone. With this plan you can also call a cellphone in the US, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Singapore, and land-lines in the US. If you have family, friends or business colleagues distributed around the world, you owe it to yourself to check out the Skype service. And in case you needed further proof that their generosity knows no bounds, Skype are also extending their current $5.95 a month plan for unlimited US and Canada calling to include Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. As always, Skype-to-Skype calls remain free. But if you have an elderly technophile [Ed. Note: yes, should be “technophobe”] relative living half-way around the world, and don’t want to have to deal with loading Skype onto their computer, for under $10 a month you can call their land-line as often and for almost as long as you like. To copy and extend a recent US series of commercials for a cellphone provider: Can you hear me now? Pouvez vous m’entendre maintenant? Konnen Sie mich jetzt horen? Peuda usted ahora oirme? You can get it here:
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The introduction of these new call plans from Skype should prove beneficial for the internet telephony / VoIP sector generally. Anything that helps to bring internet telephone calling further into the mainstream is very welcome.
May we mention that there are other options in the market that allow you to make unlimited calls for a flat rate such as Vonage. There are some significant differences between the services that Vonage and Skype provide that should be taken into consideration by anyone looking to make internet calls.
Firstly, call quality is a major advantage of using Vonage, our call quality is comparable with a regular landline service. Secondly, with Skype you have traditionally needed 1) your PC to be switched on to be able to make and receive calls, with Vonage you have never been reliant on your PC being switched on and 2) a headset or USB phone to be able to make internet phone calls, with Vonage you just plug in your existing home phone. Using your existing touch tone phone gives users the freedom to make unlimited calls in the way you want while you walk around your home or office.
You can find out more about Vonage at .
Comment by Costas Kariolis — 5/7/2008 @ 6:12 am
(whispers) “technophobe”, not “technophile”.
Comment by David Beroff — 5/7/2008 @ 2:51 pm