[LINK] Why Skype?

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:53 PM, rene <rene.ln at libertus.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 May 2011 11:25:45 +1000, Tom Koltai wrote:
> [...]
> > As the rest of the world [95% of Skype users] are used to timed
> > billing charges, it is far easier for Skype to implement a single
> > plan.
>
> If that is the reason, it's a good reason not to use them (unless one
> doesn't care about cost). Their international call rates, per minute, to at
> least some probably popular o/s countries, are also more expensive than
> some AU VOIP providers.
>

Except that they DON'T only implement a single plan.  They have a number of
plans.

A$7.50/month for unlimited calls to Australian landlines, for example.

Or $13/month for unlimited calls to 41 countries (incl Australian
landlines).

And all of that is ignoring the real reason most people use Skype - for the
completely free Skype-to-Skype calls.  There's a reason that their revenue
for the past year was only a little over US$1 per user.  (That's revenue,
not profit!)

  Scott