New Skype pricing policy and connection fee
The most popular solution for online calls, Skype, experiences a wave of changes after few months. SkypePro subscribers will now be charged a connection fee of €0.039 to place a domestic call to a landline, regardless of the length of the call. Stefan Oberg, general manager of Skype Telecoms, said that the plan was based on the success of subscription-based programmes in the US and the UK. The connection fee rate does not cover calls to mobile phones, which will still use the SkypeOut per-minute pricing plan.
The company said that its subscription services in the US and UK will not include connection fees. Computer-to-computer calls will also continue to be free. Skype said that per-minute rates for several countries have also been reduced. Calls to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Alaska and Hawaii will all cost €0.017 per minute for users subscribing to SkypeOut. I envy all these people living in the States who may call unlimited for fixed monthly/annually fee with Skype – I’m sure many people would appreciate such a service here in old good Europe…
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Some day some one’s gona exploit the website, create a portal using SSH, write a java based program to take all this crap in as a GUI & steal free connection.
i’ll say! and if u guys in europe think you have a bad deal, come try living in a developing country
and whats the biggest bummer, is u live in the “silacon valley” and have a fucking 512kbps connection. (the 2mbps costs a bitch!)
*optimism, aint it the shit!*
ah well, the speed at which things improve, i’ll prolly have to come back here in a couple of weeks and edit this post
Category TV Shows? Explain…
rdcL: ouch, dunno how could that happen, fixed now
Ventrilo > Skype
Voipbuster is a cheaper solution.
http://www.voipbuster.com
rooh why dont you try uncapping your ADSL modem; or, add more MAC address’s to your current one to increase your pipeline speed. You could end up with 8 MB connection !
*you should just see the gleam in my eyes* and then watch me do that ape-scratching-the-head thing cause i have no idea what ur talking about. UUUUH but 8mbps you say…. temme more temme more!!!!!
jippie 
Funny i just downloaded the software called CfosSpeed which is supposed to make ur connection faster or something, all it did was just prioritize my traffic! Not too bad a deal but not what i was hoping for :\
Ok on a more serious note, im not computer illiterate, but how exactly does one go about uncapping a modem? i thought i was cool when i managed to change the password and now the Customer Care guys cant just “help” me change settings without telling me what to do
Kudos TripleT
*Bleah* where’d the light at the end of the tunnel go?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO………….
http://www.broadbandinfo.com/internet-connections-101/hardware-and-wireless/cable-modem/uncap.html
Quote: “Despite all protests to the contrary, the myth or rumor or hint of uncapping still persists and tutorials on “how to uncap a cable modem” are abundant on the Internet.”
Goddamn google, such a hope buster! See i know there was some truth in “ignorance being bliss”, atleast i would have been happy all of tonight and forgotten about it by tomorrow! Schise!
Anyone know how to remove that option in firefox where u right click a selection and u have the option to “Search google for ___”. Its so darn tempting. Schise nokmal!
Cheers.
Martin, Skype should applaud your marketing for them matie, i just bought a Skypeout thing and so did my girlfriend, except i pay 0.017E to call her and she pays 0.12E (or something) to call me!
Ah well, all is fair in love and war right 
OK three comments on one post…. i shall stop now!
PS: i havent said this but thanks to all you peeps for the great site! I havent been to mininova or bitsoup in the last 20 days!
Hey Martin,
Ich schreib die Info mal in Deutsch, da es sowieso nur Leute in Deutschland interessieren dürfte.
Du schreibst, dass du neidisch auf Leute aus den USA und England bist. In Deutschland gibts doch inzwischen auch schon viele Festnetzflatrates.
Ich bezahle bei meinem Telefonanschluß (T-Com oder wie auch immer die sich nennen, für mich sind sie die Telekom) 5€ extra und kann dafür unbegrenzt lange in alle Festnetzanschlüße anrufen. Ein guter Freund ist bei Alice und hat dort eine EUROPA-Flatrate, er kann in alle europäischen Länder umsonst aufs Festnetz anrufen. Mein Vater hat Base mit dem er auch in alle Festnetze vom HANDY umsonst anrufen kann (25€ pro Monat). Wohlgemerkt, das ist alles kein VoIP, die Qualität ist also besser und man braucht auch keinen Computer.
Und dann gibts noch die 1cent Vorwahlen…
MfG
Please stick to English.You could be saying something interesting or it could be a recipe for mothers home made cake?????
lol sorry no secret German cake recipe. I was writing it in German as it is only interesting for ppl who live in Germany (It’s about phone providers..)
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Personally I think ADSL beat cable anyday there are many articles and information about this on the internet, you can see a few articles on this site that backs up ADSL being better than Cable
http://www.highspeedinternetproviders.com.au