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"In light of that, we no longer have plans to charge a supplement to make calls over 3G." I think this is huge. Mobile networks still charge 2$+ per minute for
by k7d 16y ago
"In light of that, we no longer have plans to charge a supplement to make calls over 3G."
I think this is huge. Mobile networks still charge 2$+ per minute for international calls. This basically makes it irrelevant.
- pilif 16y agodepending on your subscription (and country), they will charge you way more than $2 per minute in data traffic though. Voice is bandwidth intensive.
- k7d 16y agoI'm in Europe and bandwidth costs are relatively insignificant (as long as you don't travel abroad). Data roaming is whole different story, I really hope European Union will do something about it.
- pilif 16y agoyesterday I did a bit of research. I reset my iphone's data counter and hold a 2 minute skype call over 3g with my girlfriend. We held a normal conversation with both of us talking. After two minutes, I sent out 652 KB of data and received 798 KB. So this means that a minute of data is around 750KB. My mobile subscription (Swisscom) comes with 250MB of inclusive data for CHF 35/month (around $35 or EUR 25). With 750KB per minute, I can in theory talk for around 5.5 hours if I do nothing but Skype. My current data usage is around 50 MB/month, which leaves 200 MB unused which then is good for 4 hours of talk time. Not bad. I would have thought that a Skype conversation uses way more bandwidth than it apparently does.