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Free domestic out calls with Skype

by Scott McNulty May 15th 2006 at 5:00PM

Speaking of free stuff, Skype has announced that you can now place free calls from Skype to a mobile or land line. It only lasts until the end of the year and it only covers calls in the US and Canada, but it is still very cool. Couple this with the Universal client and you're set to call people from your MacBook Pro willy nilly for the next few months.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Pabjvar

PR is included.

May 16 2006 at 1:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YoGramMamma

it worked for me first try. Live in the us.

dial the + symbol, then the number 1 then the areacode and number with no spaces in between

i called my own cellphone, and a funky number with a 000 area code showed up on the caller ID.. but it worked.

May 16 2006 at 1:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andres

What about PR? Sometimes we're in!

May 16 2006 at 1:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ChrisM70

This might be a tip for slow-witted people (like me) but I tried to dial without putting the plus sign (+) first. Once I did that, it worked fine.

May 16 2006 at 12:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marco

A very relevant article which also discusses this news on Skype... I'm sure people here would like to check it out...

Why traditional telecoms will lose against new Voice / Video over IP players

May 15 2006 at 10:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DigiPimp

I made a couple calls to Canada with it already and it worked fine for me. Sounded almost better than my land line!

May 15 2006 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John Piercy

No Workie

In Canada

JP

May 15 2006 at 7:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
onechord

justintime24, you need to use the area code so for example +16102995230. This is how it worked for me, i live in the US.

May 15 2006 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mshonk

Looks like they are having some problems identifying IP addresses in the US. Lots of posts on forum.skype.com about it. Not surprising that most look like they have verizon as an ISP ( I do as well and can NOT make calls).

May 15 2006 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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