Skype returns to its telecoms roots
Today’s new Skype tariffs are the first positive sign of a return to its telecoms roots.
Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at Skype said “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. And if you have friends and family spread over the world, you can reach them all for as little as €8.95 a month. When you combine the free features Skype is known for – from instant messaging to conference calling to video calls – with our subscriptions, it’s hard to find a better alternative.”
This a serious blow to the phone card market and with the multicountry plans to launch prepaid Skype cards now starting to ramp up this could spell the end.
For €10 a month users can have unlimited calls to the below countries, one little fly in the ointment though as you can see on the below image, India still over 12c when it should be around 5c
Irish users can have unlimited Irish landlines calling for €3.39 a month.
These packages are certainly going to make me re-examine my Skype usage, couple this with the excellent quality I have been getting on my 3Skypephone lately and its time for a package change on my Vodafone corporate account
