Still steaming fresh in my inbox is news Skype Pro has launched in Australia. Quoth the release:
From today, people can choose to pay a low monthly fee of $3.20 and receive a range of exclusive features and benefits, such as:
- Zero cents per minute calling to domestic landlines within the same country. Connection fee applies.
- One Skype To Go number – International calls from your mobile/landline at local rates. Calls will be charged at standard local SkypeOut rates, along with local mobile/landline tarriffs.
- Skype Voicemail.
- $49 discount on SkypeIn numbers.
- Additional discounts on a series of Skype Extras also included, including call recording, desktop sharing, new ringtones and emoticons.
I hadn’t seen this Skype To Go thing before. You pick one overseas or mobile number, and Skype gives you a local number to dial instead – and dial that number from any phone, anywhere, to get that local rate.
I know Skype fans have been waiting on Skype Pro. So giddy up!
Funky J
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 3:08 PMThis is the best news as my skype-in is about to expire!
I use skype and although the quality to mobile phones wavers, to landlines it’s excellent and so far the best method I’ve found to record interviews
Tim
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 12:33 AMWoohoo! I’ve only been using Skype a few weeks now – since I moved house 2 years ago, I’ve just been living off my mobile phone. But this sound like a pretty good deal to me! Also happened to notice a Philips wifi handsfree phone kit that will work with Skype for about $120, which isn’t that bad I reckon. I’ll keep using my mobile phone to call other mobiles, but for everything else I think I’ll have to sign up to skype pro and skype-in. Nice!
Tim