OK. Too bad Skype has no Malaysian SkypeIn number offered yet and this free calls promotion is only for US Skype users. That cheeses me off and I wish I had applied for a US Green sooner. Till then, I'll still be buying cheap IDD cards at my local mall.
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.
As a nice little surprise, and to celebrate the new Skype 2.5, we’re giving you one hour of free calls to ordinary phones from Skype . We call that SkypeOut. Normally you need to buy Skype Credit to make SkypeOut calls, but we’d like to say thanks and give this little present to everyone who uses Skype a lot, including you. So, thanks.There’s no catch, and almost no effort required — all you need to do is make at least one call to an ordinary phone from Skype before June 30, 2006, and the free hour of calling is yours.
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