[*] SkypeOut is now free within the US and Canada

Ron Dallmeier ron at fiber.ca
Mon May 15 11:25:54 CDT 2006


My guess is that they are buying marketshare. They probably figure more 
people will sign up if they can make local calls to the PSTN, yet they 
don't truely know when the call is originating (just somewhere in North 
America). However, for international LD they probably figure it is better 
that people convince they other end to join Skype as well.

...Ron

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Bill Reid wrote:

> John Lange wrote:
> > "SkypeOut is now free within the US and Canada to all landlines and
> > mobiles, until at least the end of 2006."
> > 
> > http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2006/05/free_calls_to_all_landlines_an.html
> > 
> 
> The only catch is that it only applies to US or CA Skype users. I wonder why 
> they are doing this only for CA and US? Is it because long distance in CA and US 
> so cheap that it is easier to give it away then do the accounting?
> 
> -- Bill
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