Skype, as of May 14th, had made all outgoing calls to land lines & cellphones free in the US and Canada. I downloaded the new beta last night, and installed it. When I tried to make a call, it said that I needed to purchase "Skype Credit". When I woke up this morning, the calls are indeed FREE. I suppose throughout the night, Skype contacted it's servers and got "permission" of some sort to open up the free calling. I live in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have already called my mother in Phoenix, and Sister in Detroit to test it out. The call quality was great, and I am definitely going to be using this more often! I am on the edge of my cell area here, so the call was much better than when I call from home using my cell phone with it's free Long Distance, (Unless I stand next to the window with one foot in the air and point North
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The major drawback is it comes up as unknown on Caller ID on the other end, with a phone number of (000) 012-3456. So it would be advantageous to let people you are calling to be aware of that number, and not consider it a telemarketing number.
Skype says that all the outgoing calls will be free till the 1st of next year. What happens then is unknown.
You can Check out the Article On Skype's Site Here.

The major drawback is it comes up as unknown on Caller ID on the other end, with a phone number of (000) 012-3456. So it would be advantageous to let people you are calling to be aware of that number, and not consider it a telemarketing number.
Skype says that all the outgoing calls will be free till the 1st of next year. What happens then is unknown.
You can Check out the Article On Skype's Site Here.