SkypeOut in America turns into a ‘real’ phone replacement
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Many sources were wondering if SkypeOut, currently free in North America, would remain free after January 1st, 2007, when the promotion ends. As expected, it won’t. The softphone company kicks off a new calling plan. Charged.
For $30 a year, Skype users would be offered unlimited calls to landline and mobile phones within the United States and Canada. Mostly for foreigners, about $3 per month would buy unlimited calls to the US and Canada from anywhere in the world.
Skype isn’t a real telephone carrier. It “requires a behavioral change. Consumers have grown quite comfortable using their telephones,” said Jeffrey Halpern, a telecommunications services industry analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. But add the call plan to the Skype promotion for the end of the year, a pack including the SMC WiFi phone and the Fon router for $160, users could find a very interesting alternative plan.
Anyway, it’s all good for Skype. Don Albert, Skype’s general manager for North America, said in an interview that “revenue is back up above where it was pre-promotion, even though we’re giving away all the U.S. and Canada calls.”
Dec 13, 2006 | By Nuno
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[…] In USA chiamate Skype a fissi e cellulari per 30$ all’anno La nuova tariffa flat sarà in vigore da gennaio, dopo la fine della maxi promozione che ha regalato agli utenti americani chiamate gratuite a fissi e cellulari USA e canadesi. Peccato che in Italia Skype vada molto bene… (tags: skype call plan usa) […]
Mostly for foreigners, about $3 per month would buy unlimited calls to the US and Canada from anywhere in the world.
Well, that’s unfortunately very untrue
To enjoy unlimited calls to the US and Canada for $40/year, you have to be in either the US or Canada, if you are outside then you’ll be charged 2.1 cents a minute, Skype determine the user’s location by their IP address
Tamer: My mistake, you’re right, to get the $3 offer you need to be an American resident at the moment you subscribe to it, and then can call from another place in the world. (It’s $30/year by the way.)