Skype Offers Free Calls in 2006
Skype, eBay’s VoIP subsidiary, introduced a promotion Monday that makes VoIP calls free in the United States and Canada through the end of the year. The aggressive promotion comes less than a week after AOL announced it would offer a mirror image of that type of free service with AIM Phoneline.
AOL’s VoIP service, which debuts Tuesday, will give users of its AOL Instant Messenger service a free phone line where they can receive calls (see AIM Members Get a Phone Line and AIM Details Phone Plans.
Just as AOL will charge extra for additional capabilities, such as outbound calling and extra call management features, Skype will charge for inbound calls from traditional landline and mobile phones with its SkypeIn service. And the SkypeOut service will continue to charge for calls to landline and mobile phones in other countries besides the U.S. and Canada. However, PC-to-PC calls to and from other Skype members remain free wherever they are in the world.
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