LUXEMBOURG, June 8th, 2007 – Skype today announced a new way to call anyone in the world with Skype To Go™. As part of the global roll-out of Skype Pro™, you can talk to your best friend abroad from your mobile phone for as long as you want without it costing an arm and a leg.
Using Skype To Go is easy. Start by downloading Skype onto your computer. Sign up to Skype Pro for 2€ (2.30€ VAT incl.) per month and, as a Skype Pro customer, you will receive a Skype To Go number at no additional cost. To activate your Skype To Go number, choose the friend or family member you want to call who lives abroad. Then simply enter their international number and in return, Skype To Go will give you a local number to use instead.
With your Skype To Go number, you can call your friend from any phone, anytime you want. You can also store your Skype To Go number on your mobile phone and talk to that special friend no matter where you happen to be.
Having a Skype To Go number makes international calling from a mobile cheap. For instance, calling your friend in Australia now costs the same as calling your friend across the street plus the SkypeOut™ rate for Australia, which for landlines is as little as 1.7 Euro cents per minute.
“Millions of Skypers around the world already make cheap international calls from their computers. With Skype To Go, you don’t have to think twice about the cost of making an international call from your mobile phone. If you have a friend living abroad, you can now talk to him or her anytime and anywhere you want.” says Stefan Oberg, VP & GM Telecoms at Skype.
Skype Pro* was originally launched at the beginning of this year and is now available world-wide. Skype Pro is a fixed fee product priced at 2€ (2.30€ VAT incl.) per month and includes a range of features that varies depending on the country, for instance, zero per minute calls to local and national landlines, free voicemail and a range of discounts on Skype products and services. See Skype.com for details of which features are available in your package.
Skype’s popular features such as video calls from one Skyper to another, sending instant messages, transferring files, conference calls for up to 10 participants or public chats remain free to all Skypers across the world. You can also use Skype to make free calls from one Skype account to another.
As the world’s largest internet communications community, Skype is committed to giving people the ability to set their conversations free at home, at work and on the move. It is focused on further developing its ecosystem of more than 50 hardware partners and more than 190 Skype Certified™ devices to broaden the appeal of Skype to a wider base of users who want to use Skype away from the PC, no matter where they happen to be.
*About Skype Pro:
From today, people can choose to pay a low monthly fee of €2 (excl. VAT) 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. Now available in 28 countries (see below)
One Skype To Go number - International calls from your mobile/landline at local rates (available in 10 countries). Calls will be charged at standard local SkypeOut rates, along with local mobile/landline tariffs
Skype Voicemail (normally €15 excl. VAT per year)
€30 discount on SkypeIn™ numbers (standard cost is €50 excl. VAT)
Exclusive discounts on hardware for Skype
Additional discounts on a series of Skype Extras are also available including call recording, desktop sharing, new ringtones and emoticons.
15% VAT is added to all prices where applicable, and all Skype Out calls, including calls made by Skype Pro customers, are subject to a small one-off connection fee of up to € 0.039 per call. For more on calling rates please see: http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/connection_fee.html.
Local calling benefits for Skype Pro (pay a connection fee and zero cents per minute to call landlines within the same country) are now available in the following countries:
- Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the UK
Local rate Skype To Go numbers have been launched in the following countries only: Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Sweden, UK and the USA
For more information about Skype Pro, please go to http://www.skype.com/go/skypepro/.
About Skype
Skype sets conversations free by providing new and easy ways to stay in touch over the internet. Millions of people every day make free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls and send instant messages using our software. Some pay a little per minute for long-distance and international calls to phones and mobiles and for SMS, voicemail and call forwarding, or they buy subscriptions that give unlimited calls nationwide.
We certify and sell hundreds of hardware products from more than 50 partners and work with third-party developers to create software to extend Skype’s functionality. Skype has been downloaded more than half a billion times and over 196 million people from almost every corner of the globe have registered. Skype is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY), and you can learn more and get Skype at www.skype.com.
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Access to a broadband Internet connection is required for Skype and all Skype Certified devices and accessories. Skype is not a replacement for your traditional telephone service and cannot be used for emergency calling.
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