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Skype launches Apple flavour
News The company's SkypeOut service also lets users call telephone lines and mobiles, with prices starting at 1.7 euro cents (around 1p) per minute. Skype launched a version of its Internet telephony service for users of Apple computers on Tuesday, as...
[August 31, 2004, 14:50]
Well now we know what the new Skype CEO does all day long with his head ***
Blog We all know what happened, Skype introduced their Skypeout service where you bought $10 or €10 of credit to make calls to landline and mobile phones, once you had used all your credit you were stuffed see here.
[October 6, 2008, 8:03]
Skype Refuses to Comply with Ofcom 999 Ruling
Blog That's the reason they won't let you tie a SkypeIn and SkypeOut subscription together, because it makes them look too much like a phone company. Very interesting - but not at all surprising: Windows Watch reports that Skype simply will not comply.
[September 25, 2008, 10:03]
Commercial VoIP sees strong growth
News There were 35 million registered users and 1.2 million people using SKypeOut -- a service that allows users to call fixed-line and mobile numbers for typically 0.014 Euros a minute. Latest figures show that Internet telephony services are rapidly...
[July 7, 2005, 16:50]
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?
Blog Comment What Skype need to remember is that the paying public help to pay their wages each week and as such are you the paying public happy to fund a company that lies to you, does not offer a customer support department as such, and when you want to...
[December 6, 2007, 21:52]
Skype stakes a place on Nokia smartphones
News Skype-to-Skype voice calls are free, and the SkypeOut service, which allows calls from Skype to landlines and mobile devices, will be offered at low rates. Skype has signed a deal with Nokia to embed its internet calling software into the Finnish...
[February 17, 2009, 15:45]
VoIP tipped to drive down mobile prices
News Speaking at Gartner's Wireless and Mobile Summit, the analysts said that Skype was running into problems when billing people for chargeable services - such as SkypeOut, which allows calls to landlines and mobiles.
[April 18, 2005, 15:15]
BT launches consumer VoIP with landline pricing
News Skype -- a peer-to-peer VoIP service -- is beta-testing a service called SkypeOut that will let users call landlines and mobiles worldwide. BT expanded its presence in the Internet telephony market on Thursday through a partnership with Yahoo.
[July 15, 2004, 13:55]
Skype 3.8 Beta Release - Ho Hum, Same Old Bugs
Blog Comment Like Jamie I would say if you want to use Skype great but don't even bother to use it for anything other that IM or PC to PC chat because even though you might not have any problems with the paid services as far as quality goes as soon as you...
[April 9, 2008, 18:27]
Skype opens up to business phone systems
News Initially, the cost of using Skype For SIP will not extend beyond the standard rates for SkypeIn and SkypeOut calls. Skype is opening its VoIP system so businesses can hook up their internet-based phone systems to the popular service.
[March 23, 2009, 8:00]
Skype software to ship on Dell laptops
News Earlier this month, Skype began offering a promotion to allow people to make free SkypeOut calls to traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada until the end of the year. Skype's VoIP software, which allows people to talk for free...
[June 1, 2006, 9:40]
Skype Roundup - Heart Warming, Heart Breaking
Blog On the second day of his trip, Skype blocked his account, so he could not make any SkypeOut calls or receive any SkypeIn calls, effectively cutting him off from his family. The Skype Cheerleading Sqaud has been soliciting contributions on the...
[September 11, 2008, 8:03]
Analysts welcome 3's flat-rate broadband
News Other services, such as Skype chat and the premium SkypeIn and SkypeOut functions, will be introduced to 3 at some point next year — potentially cannibalising a large portion of 3's voice revenue.said Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, is "not...
[November 17, 2006, 12:31]
Skype heads for the business VoIP market
News It's likely Skype will use the business service to market its existing SkypeOut, an in which Skype users can make calls from their PCs or PDAs (personal digital assistants) to the traditional home or mobile phones for two US cents a minute.
[October 7, 2004, 11:40]
Beware the Skype-iPhone hype-fest
Blog Comment We charge for calls to landlines and mobile phones around the world at very competitive rates, in a very similar fashion to a SkypeOUT call. I was rather enjoying this post until I got further down the article where it starts to quote a variety of...
[April 6, 2009, 10:01]
Next up, Skype - the 800-pound gorilla
Blog This, of course, depends on you having a SkypeOut account, so you can make outgoing PSTN calls. Skype offers calls to and from traditional land-line and mobile phones (at a fee, of course) with their SkypeOut and SkypeIn plans, but it would we wise...
[December 3, 2007, 7:04]
This product is saving me $1000 per week
Member Review SkypeOut is also very good because you can call anyone cheaply. I run a sales team from the UK with team members across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We all switched to Skype with little investment and actually prefer Skype to normal phones.
[November 2, 2005, 15:07]
Clock ticking for ISP VoIP-tapping
News That list would include companies such as Vonage, SkypeOut and Packet 8. Broadband providers and Internet phone services have until spring 2007 to follow a new and complex set of rules designed to make it easier for police to seek wiretaps, US...
[September 27, 2005, 10:35]
Skype's affiliate scheme goes live
News The Skype VoIP application is free to download and use but the company charges for three services: SkypeOut, which allows Skype users to call a standard phone; SkypeIn, which allows standard phone users to call a Skype user on their computer; and...
[May 24, 2005, 16:00]
The danger in Skype's plans
News SkypeOut, launched last July, lets subscribers make calls from the Internet to the traditional phone network at a rate of about 1 penny per minute. In just 18 months, Luxembourg-based Skype has signed up some 31 million registered users, promising...
[April 4, 2005, 16:55]
