cost of skype

[west ham fan]

Hi, can any one tell me, I have just set up Skype so I can speak to and see my children in Australia. I have got Broad band 100% with AOL at a cost of �29.99 per month, 8 megs a month. Was wondreing how much it costs to make these calls and how many megs it will use to call for about 15 mins. cheers

[Ethel]

It is free if you are calling a skype id

If you call a landline or mobile phone, you pay

[legendis.god]

T calll landlines just pay 3 quid a month select one of 30 countries and get unlimited free lanline calls



also get cheap texts and you can get skype to go on your mobile phone tooo when in a participating country.

but for pc to pc calls it is indeed free.


D T H ?�

[Ethel]

It's �8 a month to call landlines worldwide; or �3.39 to call Europe; or �2.24 for just UK

[west ham fan]

Thankyou all very much

[WoWo]

Just to add, it is highly unlikely you have "8 megs a month" broadband, it would either be 8Gb or have a speed of 8Mbps which is the maximum speed of the connection.

If it were 8Gb a month then that is more than enough to use Skype reguarly.

[WoWo]

Just did a bit of research and came up with this.....

1 minute call at 70kbps consumes ~ 0,5 MB of bandwitdh
10 min ~ 5 MB
100min ~ 50 MB

So a 15 minute call would be about 6-7Mb, not a lot in the grand sheme of things.

[west ham fan]

Thankyou WoWo, great help, cheers