Happy 1st birthday SkypeOut! The present: lower prices.
It’s the first birthday of SkypeOut today. As [the news from a year ago](http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/skype1.html) said:
> July 27, 2004. Today Skype launched its free, Skype for Windows Version 1.0 software, which includes SkypeOut, enabling Skype users to pre-pay and call any phone number in the world at highly competitive local rates.
It’s been an eventful year and SkypeOut has served us and you well. Happy birthday, SkypeOut! And to celebrate, we got some goodies for you. We’re lowering prices to many destinations. We have to increase some a bit, too, but those don’t kick in until September 1. (Lower prices are effective immediately.)
For more info, see the [press release](http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skypeout_ratechange.html), [service announcement with price change details](http://support.skype.com/?_a=announcements&_m=details&_i=18) and [SkypeOut rates page](http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/).
]]>A cool piece of info from the press release:
> “SkypeOut’s popularity encouraged us to extend the reach of our global rate by more than 1 billion people in key markets including China, Hong Kong and Poland,” said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and Co-founder. “With 28 countries now covered by our SkypeOut Global Rate, **nearly 2.2 billion people, approximately 1/3 of the world’s population, can now be reached on their landlines and mobiles for 1.7 Euro cents a minute**.” (Population information sourced by United States’ World Factbook.)
Congratulations for the birthday and it has been a good idea to lower the prices as a present. But I have a question:
Why only to certain countries and not all of them?, is there any reason related to the cost?
Thanks.
I think that they can lower the prices in those countries which have more Skype (SkypeOut?) users, but those who have less – have to suffer..
And it probably depends on the carriers too – how low are their prices.
We are waiting for free SkypeOut day wait with us http://skype.i-loveyou.info
Thank you so much! price is getting lower in china and it makes me happy
We’re lowering prices as we get better prices from our termination providers.
Sometimes this depends on our volumes – the more the better, and of course we get more as we grow; it sometimes depends on the local situation, where regulators are forcing lower prices on the old telcos that connect to our friends on the old telephone network and sometimes simply because the termination provider simply wants to do business with Skype.
These deals are done one country at a time, so we don’t get price reductions everywhere at once.
I’m sure that with our world-class buying team (! I had to say that !) we’ll be getting more deals, and as the regulators in Europe attack the mobile operators prices during this year, we’ll be able to do something here as well.
Congratulations …. Congratulations ….
Congratulations for Skype and the whole community of users, developers and…
One year …. how many calls are mad in that year?
Yeahhh, its good news for those who, still, need to use the old fashioned telephone at the other end for reaching there friends.
Thanks Skype-team for making this possible.
Willie
That is a fantastic news. I started SKYPE last October. Since then it is my favourite telecommunication tools.
Wish her a happy birthday!
hello thank you for the rate. In the future the planet of global rate shall be yellow… the white point of switzerland come yellow, a large asia parts also. it is great. vive la communication libre de charge.
Tanti auguri e felicità Skype.
Io personalmente ti faccio un mondo di auguri e ti ringrazio notevolmente per la grande rivoluzione che mi hai permesso di effettuare.
100 di questi giorni.
Happy Birthday to SkypeOUT !!
I’m using Skype since Feb`2004 So far, I’m really happy with Skype voice quality.
And now, as SkypeOUT reduced(51.46%) the call rate for Bangladesh I’m more Happy.
Thumbs UP for Skype!! Skype ROCKS!!
KiShOrE
hello! happy birthday Skype Out!
i’ve been using Skype Out for like 6-7 months.
but it never changes, i mean the price of calls to my coutry is the same(Kazakhstan), and the quality of call to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan , very poor. hope you can improve on that…
ciao a tutti,
un augurio per prima a skype per la compagnia che ci ha fatto fino adesso… e un in bocca al lupo …per i prossimi anni perchè penso che con il voip il futuro della comunicazione abbatterà tutte le frontiere e finalmente saremo uniti anche da lontano..
ciao da lillo
barrafranca
congrats to skypeOut!
ive been using it for half a year now and still loving it.
i hope they would reduce the rate to my country more though. and probably add a skypeIn line for Indonesia. i would love to use it.. ive been waiting for that..
anyway. thx! and keep up the great job there!
怎么用不了啊？开通什么服务可以使用？
It is very good
Hey!
People are appreciate and welcome to new Telephony era to “Skype”.
Thanks
Rama
Congratulations,my Skype ) !
I like Skype very much. I transferred 10 €uro to get Skype Out. But I can not contact any mobiles. I wrote THREE eMails to Skype, but they did not answer them.
I like Skype, how I said, BUT I HATE IT IF MY EMAILS ARE NOT ANSWERED!!!
Where are my 10 euro. How long will it take until I am able to contact cellphones?
Mail back to dennisekinci@t-online.de
Thank you very much
PARABÉNS AO SKIPE E A TODOS OS USUÁRIOS!!!
BELO HORIZONTE, BRASIL.
Our first pleasant use of Skype was during Paraolympics in Athens last year. We were able to have daily SkypeOut talks with Daughter who was one of the US trainers. She would take our early AM calls with her Cell as we were retiring for night. At was good for her to hear voices from home.
Thanks Skype!
Parabens a equipe do Skype,por ter inventado esta otima ferramenta de trabalho, nos aproximando de nossos parceiros do outro lado do continente sem que sejamos explorados pelas companhias telefonicas.
UHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!