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Skype apologizes to paying customers with contract extensions

Skype Apology
Like any corporation recovering from a major service interruption, Skype is doing everything in its power to make sure customers don't jump ship and start using competing VoIP services. For two days last week, millions of Skype users were unable to connect. For some folks, this just meant you had to switch to a different chat program or pick up the cellphone to call your friends long distance. For some small businesses who had already cut their land line, this was the equivalent of the phones going down after a hurricane.

Today, Skype sent out an e-mail to customers who have signed up for services like Skype Pro, Skype Unlimited, SkypeIn or Skype Voicemail. In a nutshells, since these customers are paying on a subscription basis, the closest Skype can give to a cash incentive is a contract extension. So the company is giving all its paying customers an extra 7 days on their contract.

On the one hand, 7 days free for a 2 day outage seems like a good deal. But reliability? Priceless.

It's not clear whether Skype is offering any cash apologies to customers who sign up for SkypeOut credit but don't have a long term calling plan. You can read the entire e-mail after the jump.

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