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Skype Launches Skype Pro In Australia |
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Written by PRESS RELEASE
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
PRESS RELEASE: Sydney, June 12th, 2007 - Skype today announced the launch of Skype Pro in
Australia,
a new subscription package offering zero cents per minute calls to domestic
landlines, along with some of Skype's most popular features.
Also part of
the Skype Pro package is the new Skype To Go, allowing you to talk to
your best friend abroad from your mobile phone for as long as you want without
it costing an arm and a leg.
Using Skype To Go is easy. Start by downloading Skype onto
your computer. Sign up to Skype Pro for $3.20 per month and, as a Skype
Pro customer, you will receive a Skype to Go number at no additional
cost. To activate your Skype To Go number, choose the friend or family
member you want to call who lives abroad. Then simply enter their
international number and in return, Skype To Go will give you a local number to
use instead.
With your
Skype to Go number, you can call your friend from any phone, anytime you
want. You can also store your Skype to Go number on your mobile phone and
talk to that special friend no matter where you happen to be.
Having a Skype
To Go number makes international calling from a mobile cheap. For instance,
calling your friend in the UK now costs the same as calling your friend across
the street plus the SkypeOut rate for the UK, which for landlines is as
little as 2.7 cents per minute.
"Millions of Skypers
around the world already make cheap international calls from their computer.
With Skype to Go, you don't have to think twice about the cost of making
an international call from your mobile phone. If you have a friend living
abroad, you can talk to them anytime you want," says Stefan Oberg, VP &
GM Telecoms at Skype.
Skype Pro* was originally launched to 15 European countries at the
beginning of this year and is now available world-wide.
Skype Pro is a
fixed fee product priced at $3.20 per month and includes a range of features
that varies depending on the country, for instance, zero cents per minute calls
to local and national landlines, free voicemail and a range of discounts on Skype products and services. See Skype.com for
details of which features are available in each region's package.
Skype's popular features such as video calls from one Skyper to
another, sending instant messages, transferring files, conference calls for up
to 10 participants or public chats remain free to all Skypers across the
world. You can also use Skype
to make free calls from one Skype
account to another.
As the
world's largest internet communications community, Skype
is committed to giving people the ability to set their conversations free at
home, at work and on the move. It is focused on further developing its
ecosystem of more than 50 hardware partners and more than 160 Skype CertifiedTM devices to broaden the appeal
of Skype to a wider base of users
who want to use Skype away from the
PC, no matter where they happen to be.
*About Skype Pro:
From today,
people can choose to pay a low monthly fee of $3.20 and receive a range of
exclusive features and benefits, such as:
- Zero
cents per minute calling to domestic landlines within the same country.
Connection fee applies. Now available in 28 countries (see below)
- One
Skype To Go number - International calls from your mobile/landline at
local rates (available in 10 countries). Calls will be charged at
standard local SkypeOut rates, along with local mobile/landline tariffs
- Skype
Voicemail (normally $25.00 per year)
- $49
discount on SkypeInTM
numbers (standard cost is $80)
- Additional
discounts on a series of Skype
Extras are also available including call recording, desktop sharing, new
ringtones and emoticons.
15% VAT is
added to all prices where applicable, and all Skype Out calls, including calls
made by Skype Pro customers, are subject to a small one-off connection fee of
up to $.059c per call.
For more on calling
rates please see: http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/connection_fee.html.
Local calling
benefits for Skype Pro (pay a connection fee and zero cents per minute to call
landlines within the same country) are now available in the following
countries: Argentina,
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain,
Sweden, Taiwan and the UK
Local rate Skype To Go numbers have been launched in the following
countries only:
Australia,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Sweden, UK and the USA
For more
information about Skype Pro, please
go to http://www.skype.com/go/skypepro/.
About Skype
Skype sets conversations free by
providing new and easy ways to stay in touch over the internet. Millions of
people every day make free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls and send instant
messages using our software. Some pay a little per minute for long-distance and
international calls to phones and mobiles and for SMS, voicemail and call
forwarding, or they buy subscriptions that give unlimited calls nationwide.
We certify and sell hundreds of hardware products
from more than 50 partners and work with third-party developers to create
software to extend Skype's
functionality. Skype has been
downloaded more than half a billion times and over 196 million people from
almost every corner of the globe have registered. Skype
is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY), and you can learn more and get Skype at www.skype.com.
Make your world a smaller place: talk, share and
do more with Skype.
Skype is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY).
To learn more visit skype.com.
Access to a broadband Internet connection is required
for Skype and all Skype Certified devices and accessories. Skype is not a replacement for your traditional
telephone service and cannot be used for emergency calling.
Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Skypecasts,
Skype Certified, Skype Me, Skype Pro, SkypeFind, Skype Prime, Skype To Go,
associated logos and the ‘S'-symbol are trademarks of Skype
Limited.
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