Calls to the USA are just 2.8 per minute (Peter is old enough to remember crackly overseas calls costing $2 a minute!). If you go over the 60 minutes, the per minute rates on Skype are very cheap. The 60 minutes of free calls are to standard numbers, including ‘toll-free’ or ‘free call’ numbers but not premium or ‘per minute’ numbers. Lex), Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia (Jakarta), Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Venezuela. In these cases, mobile/wireless numbers have special prefixes.Īndorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Colombia (excl. Of course, Skype calls between computers/devices are already free.įor some countries, you can call both landline and mobile numbers for no cost:Ĭanada, China, Guam, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, and United States.Ī longer list of places have free calls to landline numbers only. Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans include 60 minutes of calls from Skype on your computer or device to phone numbers.

He could have paid 0 cents per minute using his Microsoft 365/Skype allowance! Free or cheap calls on the same smartphone with the Skype app using either Wifi or mobile data.

We’re reminded of this by a travelling friend (no name, no shame) who was paying a lot of money for overseas calls back home from his mobile phone. Skype isn’t just for computer-to-computer calls, it can also make free or cheap calls to regular landline or mobile phone numbers (known as POTS – Plain Old Telephone Service). Part of your annual Microsoft 365 Personal/Family fee is an hour of calls on Skype to many overseas destinations, sometimes including calls to mobile phones.

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