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Make international calls from your mobile at local rates with Skype To Go

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Press Release

LUXEMBOURG, June 6th,2007 – Skype today announced a new way to call anyone in the world with Skype To Go. As part of the global roll-out of Skype Pro™, you can talk to your best friend abroad from your mobile phone for as long as you want without it costing an arm and a leg.

Using Skype To Go is easy. Start by downloading Skype onto your computer. Sign up to Skype Pro for 2€ (2.30€ VAT incl.) per month and, as a Skype Pro customer, you will receive a Skype To Go number at no additional cost. To activate your Skype To Go number, choose the friend or family member you want to call who lives abroad. Then simply enter their international number and in return, Skype To Go will give you a local number to use instead.

With your Skype To Go number, you can call your friend from any phone, anytime you want. You can also store your Skype To Go number on your mobile phone and talk to that special friend no matter where you happen to be.

Having a Skype To Go number makes international calling from a mobile cheap. For instance, calling your friend in Australia now costs the same as calling your friend across the street plus the SkypeOut™ rate for Australia, which for landlines is as little as 1.7 Euro cents per minute.

"Millions of Skypers around the world already make cheap international calls from their computers. With Skype To Go, you don't have to think twice about the cost of making an international call from your mobile phone. If you have a friend living abroad, you can now talk to him or her anytime and anywhere you want." says Stefan Oberg, VP & GM Telecoms at Skype.

Skype Pro* was originally launched at the beginning of this year and is now available world-wide. Skype Pro is a fixed fee product priced at 2€ (2.30€ VAT incl.) per month and includes a range of features that varies depending on the country, for instance, zero per minute calls to local and national landlines, free voicemail and a range of discounts on Skype products and services. See Skype.com for details of which features are available in your package.

Skype's popular features such as video calls from one Skyper to another, sending instant messages, transferring files, conference calls for up to 10 participants or public chats remain free to all Skypers across the world. You can also use Skype to make free calls from one Skype account to another.

As the world's largest internet communications community, Skype is committed to giving people the ability to set their conversations free at home, at work and on the move. It is focused on further developing its ecosystem of more than 50 hardware partners and more than 190 Skype Certified™ devices to broaden the appeal of Skype to a wider base of users who want to use Skype away from the PC, no matter where they happen to be.