Get 24 minutes of free SkypeOut calls (sort of)
In celebration of the Chinese New Year, Skype is encouraging you to call "anyone in China, Hong Kong, and Tawain," by giving away 24 free minutes of SkypeOut time. Of course, you don't have to use your minutes to call those countries, but Skype isn't so much giving away 24 free minutes as giving you 50 cents of SkypeOut credit to spend any way you like.So while 50 cents will buy you 24 minutes of talk time within the U.S. and Canada, or 24 minutes of talk time if you want to call someone in China or Hong Kong, you'll get about 30 seconds of talk time if you decide to call Cuba.
[via Gizmodo]
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Tim King said 7:56AM on 2-09-2007
Well this is all fine and dandy if you live in Canada or the US, but down here in Australia we have been screwed once again by Skype, and so has the UK!
I'm sure there are several THOUSAND Chinese migrants and families in Australia and other parts of the world that would love to contact China for the New Years celebrations, in fact I know a few people myself with friends and family in China who would love this.
But no, we are once again shunned by the Skype Network, even though hundreds and thousands of Australian Skype users are becoming supernodes on a daily basis and are wasting our bandwidth every day.
C'mon Skype people, give us a freaking break, share the love...
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