Apr 23, 2008
There's greater reason than ever for active travelers to download Skype to their laptops (and buy the other paraphernalia for making calls)
Skype (www.skype.com) works best, of course, when a Skype-enabled caller makes a call to another person with Skype. The call is then entirely free. Making a call to a land-phone or mobile-phone that doesn't use Skype incurs a per-minute charge.
That's about to change. Skype has recently announced a program costing $9.95 a month that will enable Skype callers to make unlimited phone calls to land-line phones that don't have Skype, in 34 countries. Those include most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia. Skype callers are already permitted to make unlimited calls within the U.S., even to phones without Skype, for only $3 a month. They can phone Mexico for $5.95 a month.
If you're a heavy traveler, and you travel with a laptop, you really ought to download Skype; and you really ought to consider signing up for its unlimited use plan. For $9.95 a month, you'll be able to place calls to the U.S. or most other foreign countries as you travel within most of Europe, the South Pacific, and Asia.
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That's about to change. Skype has recently announced a program costing $9.95 a month that will enable Skype callers to make unlimited phone calls to land-line phones that don't have Skype, in 34 countries. Those include most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia. Skype callers are already permitted to make unlimited calls within the U.S., even to phones without Skype, for only $3 a month. They can phone Mexico for $5.95 a month.
If you're a heavy traveler, and you travel with a laptop, you really ought to download Skype; and you really ought to consider signing up for its unlimited use plan. For $9.95 a month, you'll be able to place calls to the U.S. or most other foreign countries as you travel within most of Europe, the South Pacific, and Asia.
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