Luxembourg, 2nd July 2007 – Skype today announced it has lowered the cost of calling India or Pakistan for the month of July. Now anyone in the world can call India or Pakistan for less than the price of a postage stamp with Skype’s new ‘To Bangalore or Lahore’ calling promotion. So if you live in the UK, you can call your friends, family and business colleagues in India or Pakistan for hours on end using Skype™ and pay very little for the privilege.
Calls cost 4.7p excluding VAT per minute to India and 3.3p excluding VAT per minute to Pakistan and can be made to both landlines and mobiles registered in India & Pakistan. Connection fees apply. Skype’s ‘To Bangalore or Lahore’ promotion runs from 2nd July 2007 and ends on 31st July 2007.
˝Skype wants to open up the world of communications and make the world a smaller place,˝ said Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at Skype. ˝We make it easy for people to stay in touch with one another all over the world. Today on Skype, you can talk and see each other for free. At the same time, we’re working very hard to make it even cheaper to call your friends and family even if they aren’t on Skype. With our new promotion, you can now make calls to Indian and Pakistan landlines and registered mobiles for incredibly cheap rates, making it possible talk to the ones you love for next to nothing.’
In the first quarter of this year, people all over the world spent over 7.7 billion minutes on Skype. And today, Skype’s 196 million strong user community does the equivalent of 7% of the world’s long-distance minutes. In the UK, calling India & Pakistan can cost on an average around 25p a minute from a traditional landline but on Skype, you pay only around a quarter of the price.
Making a call is easy. Simply download Skype, buy Skype credit from skype.com and click on the green button to start calling.
Skype’s popularity comes from letting people make free and very cheap calls over the internet, setting conversations free at home, at work and on the move.
Footnote:
All SkypeOut™ calls, including calls made by Skype Pro subscribers, are subject to a connection fee. For details on the connection fee, go to http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/connection_fee.html.
About Skype
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