Bummer, an amazing product that is looking more and more like just another telcohead. What I find difficult to believe is that a lot of people will want to take advantage of this. Today, an average Skype user only spends a few bucks a month on SkypeOut, if that. Would users want to pay the expected $6-7 monthly charge? And, on top of that, pay for international calling and for connection fees?
In the past, users switched to VoIP because it was the cheapest calling option around. When it’s no longer that, customers might no longer hurry to abandon their telcohead services providers .
Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced its new global pricing structure which offers a simple, convenient and cost-effective way for consumers worldwide to call landlines and mobiles over the Internet. The new pricing structure complements the foundation of Skype’s success in letting anyone in the world talk for free, from one Skype software account to another.
Source: Skype Takes Internet Communications One Step Further With New Pricing Strategy - About Skype
From The PhoneBoy Blog comes this:
But let’s call a spade a spade. What they are really doing is raising the price, but they can’t come right out and say that, can they?