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New Skype Subscription Plans to Call Brazil and Russia

A few weeks ago we launched a new subscription plan for calls to Mexico. Now we're pleased to announce the addition of new unlimited* subscription plans for calls to Brazil and Russia.

These plans give you an easy and cost effective way to call family and friends on landlines and mobiles anywhere in Brazil or Russia through a selection of subscriptions offerings, at a flat monthly fee starting at $19.99 per month. No need to worry about extra costs, just sign up and begin calling to take advantage of these new plans. For a limited time, we are also offering 15% off unlimited* calling subscriptions when you sign up for 12 months.

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*A fair usage policy applies

Skype Premium Just Got Better

For business or pleasure, Skype Premium continues to provide new ways to keep in touch with the important people in your life. In addition to Group Video Calling, our 3 and 12 month Premium subscriptions now also include unlimited* calling to phones in the US and Canada for users based in these two countries.

Now Skype Premium is more affordable than ever. If you sign up before July 31st you can get up to 50% off the regular price.

So whether you are gathering family members from around the world for a virtual family reunion, placing a call to grandma in Iowa, or chatting with your best friends studying abroad in Europe, Skype Premium keeps you connected.

Here is how you can save with our enhanced Premium offering:

12 month subscription (50% off) - $53.94 or $4.49/month (Annual savings of $53.94)

3 month subscription (25% off) - $20.23 or $6.74/month (Three month savings of $6.74)

Learn more about Skype Premium.

* A fair usage policy applies. This promotion is only available in the US and Canada, but we have plenty of other great special offers available around the world.

Get 50% off Group Video Calling with Groupon

For one day only, you can get group video chat through Skype for over 50% off our standard price. All you need to do is register at Groupon and then buy a voucher for 3 months of Skype Premium for just $10.

Skype Premium includes:

• Group video calling - Catch up with family face-to-face and work via video conference with colleagues all over the world.


• An exclusive webcam discount - Get even better video quality on calls with the faceVsion TouchCam N1 HD webcam. 25% off!


• Live chat customer support - Get one-to-one help from a Skype customer support representative. Currently available in English only.

All this for three months for just $10? What are you waiting for? Visit Groupon now to get your deal on Skype Premium.

20% off all 12-month calling subscriptions this week only

When you think of Skype, you probably think of video calling – rightly so as 40% of all Skype-to-Skype calls include video. At the same time, you still want the flexibility to call your friends, family and colleagues wherever they are – which is why Skype makes it possible for you to call any phone, almost anywhere, at unbelievably low rates.

Whether doing a Skype-to-Skype call for free or calling any phone for very little, people like you around the world have spent over 520 million minutes on average every day talking to people with Skype.

For the next week only, we are offering a 20 percent discount off all 12-month subscriptions. Sign up right up now and enjoy talking to your contacts longer, for less.

With over 3,600 types of subscriptions to call over 170 countries, you can stop watching the meter and talk for longer. A monthly subscription gives you the freedom to reach one or multiple countries for as cheap as €0.89 ($1.09/£.69)* per month, with rates as low as €0.01 ($.01/£.01) per minute to almost any destination around the globe.

For example, you can call the following destinations from virtually anywhere in the world for as low as:

€ .01 per minute to China ($.02/£.01)
€ .01 per minute to the United Kingdom ($.02/£.01)
€ .02 per minute to India ($.02/£.01)
€ .03 per minute to Mexico ($.04/£.03)

That means you can call these destinations cheaply whether you are in San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Cape Town or almost anywhere in between.

And if you prefer the flexibility to pay as you go, you can buy Skype Credit to make calls at low rates.

*.€1.02, $1.25, £0.79, including VAT where applicable

New! Save even more money on calls to India with our new subscription - from only 2.2¢/1.4p/1,7c per minute

If you make calls to India a lot, you should check out our brand new subscription to India.

We’ve just introduced even lower prices: you can now make up to 400 minutes of calls to landlines and mobiles in India for just $8.99/£5.79/€6,69* per month – an effective rate of only 2.2¢/1.4p/1,7c† ($US/£/€) per minute.

You can chat away without the worry, and there are no long-term contracts either. You can make calls from your computer, mobile phone or even from your TV at our great low rates – a monthly subscription is the cheapest way to call phones with Skype.

Plus, if you sign up for 12 months, you’ll get an extra 120 minutes per month free, bringing the total monthly allowance to 520 minutes – an even better deal.

Find out more and sign up

* $10.34/£6.66/€7,69 including VAT where applicable
† 2.6¢/1.7p/1,9c including VAT where applicable

Throw away your international calling card and make cheap calls to India with Skype

If you have friends or family in India, Skype’s a great way to stay in touch. With our monthly subscriptions you get great rates on calls to landlines and mobiles in India. No hidden fees, and no long term contract needed.

Our subscriptions start from as little as $1.79/€1,39/£0.99 per month* for 60 minutes of calls to landlines and mobiles in India. Which works out at just 3¢($)/2.3¢(€)/1.7p per minute✝.

Skype lets you make calls from your mobile phone, from your computer, or even from a landline phone with a Skype To Go number.

What are you waiting for? Throw away that long-distance calling card today and sign up for one of our subscriptions to make cheap calls to India.

* $2.05/€1,59/£1.13 including VAT where applicable
✝ 3.45¢($)/2.65¢(€)/1.96p including VAT where applicable

Free calls to the USA, Mexico and many more countries for a month

This promotion is now over, but you can still make great value calls to regular phones around the world – no long-term contract required.

Why not kick off your football conversations this summer with our exciting promotion?

To celebrate a season of football, we’re offering you free calls to qualifying countries for a month. Pick one of these great deals and talk football with your friends and family.

• 60 minutes free calls to landlines in Algeria for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Argentina for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Australia for a month
• 400 minutes free calls to landlines in Brazil for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines in Cameroon for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Chile for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Denmark for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in France for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Germany for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines in Ghana for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Greece for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines and mobiles in Honduras
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Italy for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines and mobiles in Japan for a month
• 120 minutes free calls to landlines in Mexico for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in the Netherlands for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in New Zealand for a month
• 120 minutes free calls to landlines in Nigeria for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines in Paraguay for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines in Serbia for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Portugal for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Slovakia for a month
• 120 minutes free calls to landlines in Slovenia for a month
• 120 minutes free calls to landlines in South Africa for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in South Korea for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in Spain for a month
• 120 minutes free calls to landlines in Switzerland for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines in the UK for a month
• 60 minutes free calls to landlines in Uruguay for a month
• Unlimited free calls to landlines and mobiles in the USA for a month

After the first month, you’ll be charged our normal subscription rate. A fair usage policy applies where we offer unlimited calls. Subscriptions exclude service, special, premium and non-geographic numbers. Terms and conditions apply to individuals countries – see the promotion website for more details.

Global WiFi celebration this weekend

To celebrate our new subscriptions with rates as low as €0.01/£0.01/$0.012 per minute to phones in more than 170 countries around the world, we’re offering you WiFi access at over 100,000 hotspots worldwide for just €0.01/£0.01/$0.012 per minute this weekend (15th-16th May 2010).

Skype Access lets you connect to the Internet with one-click at premium public hotspots in cafés, hotels and airports worldwide. You’ll need the latest version of Skype for Windows or Skype for Mac to use it – just look out for the Skype Access window when you’re connected to a compatible hotspot.

From 0000 GMT on Saturday 15 May to 2359 GMT on Sunday 16 May, Skype Access will cost €0.01/£0.01/$0.012 per minute to use. Skype Access is powered by Boingo through WiFi hotspot operators around the world. There’s a complete list of compatible WiFi networks on our Support site.

Our new subscriptions

What do you do when you want to speak to someone abroad who’s not on Skype? Picking up the phone could cost you an arm and a leg – but don’t fear, Skype could be just what you need.

With our brand new subscriptions you can call regular phones in one of more than 170 countries around the world, from as little as €0.89/£0.69/$1.09 per month. Perfect for speaking to Grandma in Mumbai or catching up with your friends in New Zealand.

With a subscription, you can call landlines or mobiles, and you can pick a number of minutes (from 60 to unlimited) and length of subscription (from 1 to 12 months) to suit you. You’ll also save up to 60% on our normal rates.

There’s no commitment – you can pay for 1, 3 or 12 months in advance, and you can cancel at any time.

For those of you who already have a subscription, here’s what’s new: We’ve added loads more countries, and added mobiles to the mix. You can also have a subscription to more than one country at once, which is great for those of you who call Venezuela and Botswana.

Head over to our new subscriptions page and check them out now.

* €1.02/£0.79/$1.20 including VAT where applicable.