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Free calling from Skype in the States and Canada

Free calling from Skype in the States and Canada

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
Nothing says "come hither" like "it's free." Skype is hoping to grow its already teeming mass of users by offering in the United States and Canada through the remainder of 2006. The company hopes that the allure of free SkypeOut service will get users to pay $38 a year for their unlimited incoming-call service, SkypeIn. If it doesn't work, eBay will be out only the $2.6 billion it already paid, plus whatever it costs to pay for all those outgoing calls, plus whatever strange logic was behind its Skype purchase in the first place.