Microsoft has quietly ended the sale of recent credit and cellphone quantity options for Skype this week. Skype Credit score and Skype Quantity are each being discontinued in favor of Microsoft pushing subscriptions as an alternative.
Skype Credit score was a pay-as-you-go plan for making calls each regionally and internationally, and Skype Quantity allowed you to have a cellphone quantity that individuals may name and get by to your Skype account. Each have existed in Skype for years, making it a well-liked alternative for calling landlines and cellphones over the web.
“New gross sales of Skype numbers and Skype credit score have stopped, however prospects can nonetheless use current Skype numbers and credit,” says Amit Fulay, vp of Microsoft Groups and Skype, in a press release to The Verge. “Customers can even buy new outbound PSTN calling companies by month-to-month Skype subscriptions or use Skype’s free VoIP companies for voice or video calls.”
Whereas current Skype cellphone numbers will proceed to work for now, it appears inevitable that Microsoft will ultimately power current customers right into a subscription, too. Present Skype Credit score will also be used, however you’ll be able to’t purchase any further prime ups. Even with Microsoft’s Skype subscriptions, there’s nonetheless no direct alternative for having a cellphone quantity that individuals can ring to get to your Skype.
