Why is skype free?

[The Pentium Guy]

How/Why? Where do they get their money? Are international calls free? etc etc .

 

[Deeko]

cars

 

[Lorn]

Originally posted by: Deeko
cars

Hahahahahah

 

[aplefka]

They charge for their subscription service.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

But still why is it free? I mean seriously..... what if you're not even connected to a phone line? .

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Bump!

 

[Bateluer]

Removed

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Removed

 

[spherrod]

They make money from people using the service to make calls to landlines - I guess their aim is to get it downloaded and installed on as many machine as quickly as possible and then people will begin using it for VOIP and regular calls

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Fair enough.
SkypeOut is free but not SkypeIn right?

 

[spherrod]

as far as I'm aware all calls over VOIP with Skype are free - calls to landlines are chargeable and you need to put credit on your skype account to make them

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Thanks.

 

[zainali]

cause they dont use any resoures. voice is transferred over internet. its only a software. there costs are mainly programming ones.

make money by charging for landline calls.

 

[TKHDebater]

And if I'm not mistaken since skype is P2P the network benefits from having people with free resources logged in?

 

[RossMAN]

RTFM

PC to PC calls = free
PC to phone = $