Free Long Distance Phone Calls To Canada and the USA Using Skype Until 2007
By pacificIT on May 15, 2006 - 5:13pm
Amazing announcement today by Skype. They are now offering their SkypeOut service to any phone number in Canada and the United States for unlimited calling for FREE! This includes Vancouver!
This is not a scam, a quick promotion to get names and addresses or anything else which would otherwise make you go hmmmm. This is a legitimate service I frequently use myself and is prominent on my website. The free SkypeOut service to North America expires at the end of 2006.
There are two sides of SkypeOut. The first is to simply use your Skype setup to call any number in North America. That's right, if you use the phone I suggested in this posting or any other headset you may have, your computer can now call any regular landline or cell phone in North America without incurring any long distance charges (of course the receiver still may have their usual call charges). That could be a lot of talking with no charges whatsoever!
But wait, there's more! If you use the Call Forward feature of Skype, you can have your Skype account automatically connect to YOUR own cell or landline phone. That means if I call your Skype number from my computer, and you're not at your computer, it just forwards the call to your cell which you may have on you. All for FREE!
The technology behind all this is not new. I've used SkypeOut now since the beginning of the year and I've had some amazing calls from both Europe and Asia. The only issue was that it was costing me - very little mind you - but just a little bit each time I called out to a regular number or if a call was forward to my cell. Now I can make as many calls as I want and won't have any concerns about picking it up and talking as long as I want as well.
This is a very cool new technology. Thanks "not dead yet" Richard Pav from Japan.
Cross-posted to http://www.pacificIT.ca/article/125
