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Skype Offers US Free International Calls

oddcrap   on 23 June 2006 - 01:17 · 13 comments & 8751 views

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Skype has stepped up its efforts to break into the competitive US VoIP consumer market with the promise of free international calls. The company today offered its US-based users one hour of free international calling to landline phones in 30 countries. Under the terms of the offer, which runs until 30 June, US Skype users signing up to the firm's SkypeOut service will be offered 60 minutes of free calls to landlines in Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico and the UK among others.

The offer comes one month after Skype announced that customers in the US and Canada can make free SkypeOut calls to any landline or mobile phones in the two countries until the end of the year. Skype users in both countries were previously required to pay for Skype calls from their PCs to traditional telephones.

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#1 Code Red on 23 Jun 2006 - 01:24
Wow, very nice. I definately will use this.
(1 reply) #2 AJCrowley Esq on 23 Jun 2006 - 01:59
I don't see anything about this on the Skype page, hope they sort it out soon.
#2.1 Express on 23 Jun 2006 - 02:45
I looked around too. No mention anywhere on Skype's site.
I am now suspicious that this news report is not true.
(3 replies) #3 TheGriffin on 23 Jun 2006 - 02:41
Aww, Why not Canada?!
#3.1 Tomi on 23 Jun 2006 - 04:23
Yeah, what about Canada!?
#3.2 M2Ys4U on 23 Jun 2006 - 08:09
screw Canada, what about Europe?!
#3.3 leebobs on 23 Jun 2006 - 09:57
Quote - M2Ys4U said @ #3.2
screw Canada, what about Europe?!


Amen to that
(1 reply) #4 frogworm on 23 Jun 2006 - 04:32
I have yet to even use the free SkypOut U.S. offer. I am not a phone person. Nice for those who care though.
#4.1 xpgeek on 23 Jun 2006 - 05:26
Me either. I have it, and have only used it once to call my own phone to see if it worked.
(1 reply) #5 PiG_DoG on 23 Jun 2006 - 07:32
This news is so so so old it was announced in May!

http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2006/05/fr...ndlines_an.html
#5.1 Ivo on 23 Jun 2006 - 07:45
And you spent so so so much time reading it that you didn't see it was a different article!

Get some glasses, or maybe one of those OWL things that they sell on TV.
#6 oddcrap on 24 Jun 2006 - 04:01
To who ever asked for the countries, and this is nothing regarding what they announced in may.

1. Argentina

2. Australia

3. Austria

4. Belgium

5. Canada

6. Chile

7. China

8. Denmark

9. Estonia

10. France

11. Germany

12. Greece

13. Hong-Kong

14. Ireland

15. Italy

16. Korea

17. Mexico

18. Netherlands

19. New Zealand

20. Norway

21. Poland

22. Portugal

23. Russia

24. Singapore

25. Spain

26. Sweden

27. Switzerland

28. Taiwan

29. United States

30. United Kingdom
#7 oddcrap on 24 Jun 2006 - 04:01
The article was produced on June 21 2006.

http://finanzen.net/news/news_detail.asp?NewsNr=408229

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