Skype Pro promises 'disruptive pricing' but how disruptive is it?

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Internet phone company Skype is readying a new pricing plan for chargeable calls to landlines and mobiles that may or may not be quite as "disruptive" as it infers.

We're struggling to figure out how much cheaper (or indeed, more expensive) the new Skype Pro "premium subscription package" - with its €2 (ex VAT) per month fee - will be compared to current Skype Out prices and will report back as soon as we manage to separate the hype from reality.

In the interim, we include the press release issued this afternoon about Skype Pro and have created a thread in the HEXUS.lifestyle.news forum where your calculations and comments would, of course, be welcome.

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Find out more and then grab you calculators to help us solve the Great Skype Pro Mystery.

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We've now got our heads around what Skype Pro is all about but can't say with any certainty who will or won't be better off adopting this pricing plan, rather than sticking with separate payments for SkypeOut and SkypeIn or, indeed, opting for something quite different from a phone or internet service provider.

The first thing that needs to be realised is that - Skype Pro or no – outside of the USA and Canada, the company has from today introduced a new connection fee for all chargeable calls made to landlines and mobiles.

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Check out the updated news story - and don't forget to share your thoughts with us about Skype Pro and the state of play with telecoms.

Having read the story on theregister, I don't think I will be giving Skype any more of my money for skype out calls to landlines.

They where good value when they started, but these days there are plenty of other VOIP providers. My other problem with Skype is that their program is almost spyware in the way it works, and does not follow the SIP or H263 standards for VOIP telephony.