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Skype Celebrates The World Cup with a Month of Free Phone Calls to One Country

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Skype Celebrates The World Cup with a Month of Free Phone Calls to One Country
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neil on 20/06/2010 - 19:10 footballpromo.skype.com (2705 clicks)
Last edited 20/06/2010 - 19:31

Pick any country that is playing in the World Cup (except North Korea and Ivory Coast) to enjoy unlimited calls for a month.

E.G. For US, you can get unlimited calls to both mobile and landlines. If you pick Australia, it's just landlines. After one month, you will be charged the normal subscription price (e.g. $8USD to US), so make sure you remember to cancel your subscription. Once you click subscribe, it states: To qualify for the free trial Skype will authorize your credit card or PayPal account for the nominal amount of AU$1.00. You will not be charged for this. This is ONLY an authorization and NOT a charge (yes the wording is confusing). Check out the screenshot from my Paypal Account here, it shows up as a hold, not a charge. If you want to cancel during your first month, that’s easy to do. Simply sign into your account and disable the subscription by clicking Subscription settings on the Call phones tab.

Terms and Conditions:
Offer available for lowest priced subscriptions to landlines in countries with teams playing football in the World Cup tournament in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July 2010 (excluding North Korea and Ivory Coast)

Offer limited to 1,000 subscriptions to each of Nigeria, Honduras, Paraguay, Ghana, Algeria and Cameroon, and 100,000 subscriptions in total.

Subscriptions will be free for the first month. After this, your subscription will automatically continue and payments will be taken monthly unless you cancel.

Offer expires on 11 July 2010.

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Not sure why Gadling says it's 120 minutes, don't see that anywhere

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  • n666 on 20/06/2010 - 19:40

    wonder if it is hard to cancel….

    • neil on 20/06/2010 - 19:42
      +4

      If you want to cancel during your first month, that’s easy to do. Simply sign into your account and disable the subscription by clicking Subscription settings on the Call phones tab.

  • punk on 20/06/2010 - 19:48
    +3

    sounds good. Finally the only good reason the US is in the world cup ;)

    • venu on 20/06/2010 - 23:24
      +2

      i feel sorry for the Irish.

      • greenzeto on 21/06/2010 - 12:13

        FRANCE SHOULD NOT EVEN BE IN THE WORLD CUP… they r so n00b… :P go IRISH : )

    • Livert on 20/06/2010 - 23:56
      +4

      This deal needs a bit more world cup. http://bit.ly/B-flat

      • neil on 21/06/2010 - 00:05
        +2

        LOL, world cup rickroll.

        • Roja on 21/06/2010 - 02:16

          so true!

  • inherentchoice on 20/06/2010 - 20:31

    Hmm the North Korea exception makes me remember the Kim Jong Il from Team America… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSXNJMP8ir4

    • Cluster on 21/06/2010 - 02:10
      +2

      North Korea doesn't have Internet access for ordinary citizens. Anyone wishing to access it must be a higher Party member, and even then all access is monitored.

      I am surprised the Hermit Kingdom even gets to see their team play in the World Cup :-) International TV… so decadent…

  • betraya on 20/06/2010 - 23:39

    That's weird- I have more than $1 in my Paypal account and skype forces me to add a credit card.

    • [Deactivated] on 21/06/2010 - 03:05

      They need to make sure they have a funding source for next month and the month after etc, ie credit card

  • Roja on 20/06/2010 - 23:45

    So, when does the free month begin? Or does it follow the duration of the cup?

    • neil on 20/06/2010 - 23:57
      +1

      Signed up for it today and it says:

      Last payment Order No. xxxxxxxxx June 20, 2010 AU$ 0.00
      Next payment July 17, 2010 AU$ 7.99

      So roughly a month.

      • IVI on 21/06/2010 - 18:50
        +1

        So why is this not a full month?

        I predict some complaints and/or law suits, eg, like the hard disk "Where's my -full- GB?" (or similar) :-)

  • theguyrules on 21/06/2010 - 08:12
    +1

    Hmm, thanks guys!
    I just did calls to Australia.. I have no other countries I want to call!

  • newguy on 21/06/2010 - 11:34
    -1

    I wouldn't trust Skype anymore. Yesterday my account was compromised and £50 (yes, British pounds) was charged to make phone calls to Taiwan which cost me £40 within 2 hours. The hacker turned on auto-recharge and can access my credit card. They've also converted the currency to british pound. I think Skype is very insecure.

    • muzzamo on 21/06/2010 - 11:50

      Let me guess, do you use the same password for different accounts on the internet? If so, it would have been real easy to harvest your password from some other site, and then guess that its the same for skype.

      This seems to be how 90% of people get "hacked" these days.

      • newguy on 21/06/2010 - 12:10

        Yes. But how is it possible to use different passwords for more than 30 websites, MSN, facebook etc.? Skype should force users to use different passwords to login to the account and access payment settings like some stock trading websites.

        • moocow on 21/06/2010 - 12:35

          You don't have to use a different password for every site but it's easy to have a few different ones to use for different groups of sites, ie emails, banking, ones that use your CC details and then junky sites - that way if someone gets your password for a junky site they can't use it to get into your emails or banking.

        • RdWarrior on 21/06/2010 - 13:36
          +4

          i have a standard password that I seed with something from the domain im registering on.

          so say i have a password

          CH!ck3ns

          for each domain I add on the 3rd letter of the domain name

          eg ozBargain.com.au
          CH!ck3nsB

          this way I can have one password that is actually unique for every site.

          You can also use Firefox to save your passwords and set a master password (the only one you have to remember)
          this password file can be backed up securely too..

        • muzzamo on 21/06/2010 - 14:45

          So let me see… you willingly hand out your username and password to more than 30 sites, but then complain when someone "hacks" your skype account?

          • newguy on 21/06/2010 - 15:34

            @muzzamo: Of course not. Who will be that stupid to use same username and password on 30 sites. I use more than 7 groups of username/passwords on 40 sites or so. The only site I can think about using the same pair is probably Facebook, which is also insecure in my opinion.
            So far I have never come across any other site like Skype that store your credit card information and can use one password to access payment settings without questions/another password.

  • talbot777 on 21/06/2010 - 16:34

    If i pick another country say NZ as my residence, when i pick Australia for the calls would i get free calls to mobiles as well do you think?

  • MrCAMEL on 21/06/2010 - 17:47

    http://www.skype.com/intl/en/legal/terms/fair_usage/

    So it is 10,000 free minutes of talking to people.
    I think it is a good deal.

  • IVI on 21/06/2010 - 18:55

    OT: So, where did the muliple-country subscription offer go?

    PS: It was cheaper by-the-year & you got 3 DID numbers.

    In Euros:

    . 1 country was ~ 6 euros (1 DID)

    . 40+ lands were ~ 9 euros (3 DIDs)

    Oh, we -didn't- always get such perfect audio-quality w/ Skype.

  • EggMan28 on 21/06/2010 - 23:15

    Just had hour long US call - quality was excellent. Great deal !

  • StewBalls on 22/06/2010 - 00:51

    What, no Ivory Coast! How am I supposed to call there to check up on the tax money I sent them by Western Union to get my lottery winnings released? ;)

    Dunno who I know there to buy me a ticket without my knowledge though??? :p

    • Roja on 23/06/2010 - 00:24

      Lol, have the scammers moved over from Nigeria?

  • Charlotta on 22/06/2010 - 07:03

    Mobile rates into the US are going to be the same as rates to landlines in the US because the mobile owner is being charged per minute for receiving the call. So don't kid yourself that this is something special in this "deal".

    Also mobile numbers there don't have separate prefixes from landlines - they use the same local areas number ranges - so VSP's here couldn't use number prefix as a basis for charging a different rate for calling a mobile there anyway.

  • coolsteps on 06/07/2010 - 17:23

    quality is bad on wireless broadband three. but free after adding my cc to paypal so its ok

  • neil on 16/07/2010 - 00:30

    Just a reminder to those who signed up, my month(27 days technically) expires tomorrow so remember to cancel to avoid getting charged. Very easy to cancel.

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