Hi,
Sorry for the newbie question, but just got this offer today from Skype about 2.95 per month unlimited calling to landlines and cell phones in US and Canada. I travel out of the country a few times a month with the military and was wondering if this plan would work for me. I only call back to the US. Before I sign up I want to make sure that this wont just work only when I'm located in the contiental US, but abroad around the world. Thanks for any info!

I had the 30$/year unlimited calling to the US plan. I tried calling from India and it did not work. May be the isp is blocking or something else. You better confirm before taking the jump.

It's not restricted to calling from the US or anything like that.

Well if that is true .... many of us will gladly buy a skype US calling plan and use it for unlimited international calling from countries like India which is a big deal. Something is not right.....

the 3/mo plan does not cover any sort of international calls. but using regular skypeout money is pretty cheap, and they also just anounced a plan for 10/mo that has unlimited international calls to some countries' landlines.

ok so let me get this straight. If this new 2.95 month unlimited US calls wont work from overseas? But if I buy Skype Credit for 10 dollars..that will work from anywhere? I'm just trying to find the right way to call from europe to the usa. Thanks!

That's right. The $3 plan gives you free calls inside the U.S. And when you are outside the U.S. they charge you the skype out rate. Which is pretty cheap. Look at the skype.com site for rates. I called from Turkey back to the U.S. for 2 cents a minute. They know you are outside the U.S. based on your IP address.

Could someone provide a link to somewhere on Skype's site where they state that?
Assuming we're talking this plan, I see nothing to indicate that they try to find where you're calling from and bill differently. All ******edness of pricing things that way aside (many things are priced in ******ed ways after all, especially regarding mobile phones), that's not the way Skype does things, according to their knowledgebase.

Edit: My understanding is that calls from your computer/N800/whatever, on any network where Skype works at all, to any US/Canada phone number are free. Calls to any non-US/Canada phone number cost the normal SkypeOut rate.

The Skype plan only works while you are inside North America. I quote from Skype.

"The Skype Unlimited Calling plan is a paid subscription service that allows you to make unlimited SkypeOut calls to any phone within the US and Canada, when you are calling from inside the US or Canada. "

I have skype, it's the only reason I bought a N800. It sucks that the video part doesn't work...and that you have to be inside North America to utilize this plan.

Didn't that same Skype offer list rates for International calling? The one I saw did, and I promptly forgot the amount.

Skype to Skype is of course free to everywhere. I've talked to friends in Moscow from California using Skype that way.