Skype, een beroemde Internet telefoon service, hebben verklaard dat zij nieuwe plannen voor binnenlandse gesprekken in te voeren 24 landen, waaronder Frankrijk, Duitsland, Japan, Zuid-Korea, Spanje, en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Wat is spannend om in het nieuwe plan, Skype Pro, will be that the users will be paying a monthly subscription along with a connection fee, but will not be charged at a per-minute basis. An executive of Skype have stated that the monthly pricing will be less than $6.50 US, but that this is a mere estimate and nothing has yet been finalized. Stefan Oberg, a GM for Skype Telecoms added that the connection fee will be 5 cents in a case where a user calls a domestic numbered mobile phone.
Skype Pro is also said to offer free voice mail which costs $19.40 per year as of. Niet alleen dat, but it is said that subscribers will also be given a discount on a “SkypeIn” number, which currently costs $38.80.
With the launch of Skype Pro, Skype have also said that it will be reducing the current per-minute international rates to 2.2 cents for calls to so far, eight countries, which include the United States along with Malaysia and Czech Republic.