In July Skype is offering free or cheap calls to landline telephones in all countries participating in the World Cup soccer tournament. 120 free minutes are available for calls to landline numbers in South Africa.
To be eligible, one must first register with Skype on the internet and, among other things, provide your credit card details or work through PayPal (www.paypal.com).
Skype is a telephony service working through the internet. Many people with family and friends overseas are very familiar with it.
But it has not yet attracted great attention for local calls in South Africa because South Africa has so far been deficient in unlimited Internet access.
Such internet access is however becoming more available on the local front and so therefore Skype can become more popular in South Africa.
With Skype, conversations are carried out via computers. Two computers that are both connected to the internet can in this way be linked by the click of a mouse and from that point conversations are unlimited and free – if one discounts the cost of internet connectivity.
These types of conversations can also become a video call with a web camera.
The Skype connectivity application is also available on some cell phones like the Apple Iphone.
This means that an international call takes place via the cellphones’ data connections instead of cell phone provider rates (on both sides) instead of being a more expensive international cell phone call. On a wireless phone, one can connect to an internet router and make a call through that connection without having a computer and a microphone.
Skype can also be used to connect to landlines or cell phones from a computer.
To use the facility, you pay an amount into your Skype account and the costs are recovered from that. But Skype’s soccer offering will be free or cheaper during July.
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