Free Skype Download! Get Started With VoIP.

Use the Free Skype Download to make free video calls, using your Skype web cam to film yourself.

How Does It Work?

This is all made possible by Skype using intelligent software that makes use of Voice Over IP to transfer your voice in packet form across the internet to other Skype users. When these packets are received at the far end, the quality in general is excellent, regardless of where you are in the world.

In fact, unless you are in an area of the world where there is very limited bandwidth into and out of the country, you should find call quality as good as it would be on your home phone.

There are some instances when the Free Skype Download may not be your best means of calling, as follows :

- When you do not have a broadband connection, either wireline or wireless. In this case, the rate at which data is sent may not be sufficient to obtain a quality call.

- If you are using a corporate network or other shared network with high usage, there may be delay in the voice packets reaching their destination, causing a ‘jitter’ effect on the line.

That’s about it really. In all other cases, the Free Skype Download will enable you to call your friends on their PC’s or other internet-connected devices for FREE!

Skype Out

This is an excellent service for those who wish to take advantage of Voice Over IP immediately, and want to make calls to friends, colleagues or business associates who are not connected to the internet.

In other words, to make calls to people connected to a landline (when you have already been able to download free Skype). As you’ll probably know, by using your home or office phone, a call to other countries can be prohibitively expensive, and if you’re making those calls every day of the week, the costs can really mount up.

With Skype Out, calls to these destinations are a fraction of the cost of using the incumbent provider. Click here to see Skype's cost of calling abroad.

And even better, the quality of these calls is comparable to that of your existing provider. In fact, Skype themselves apparently have commercial arrangements with some of the highest quality incumbent service providers around the world to ensure premium quality of calls on their Skype Out service.

Example Cost Savings Using Skype Out VoIP Service

A small business in the UK makes calls to a key customer in Nigeria for 40 minutes per day, ie 200 minutes per week.

Cost with existing fixed-line provider = 40p per minute = £80 per week.

Same calls using Skype cost approximately 5p per minute = £10 per week.

Saving = £70 per week, or £3,500 per year!

Other Skype Products/Services

Once you have completed the Free Skype Download, you can sign up to these additional VoIP services:

1. Skype Messenger – just like any other instant messenger service, but you can use your Skype Messenger to contact one or many people in your user-group at any time, as well as using the Skype emoticons in messages to your friends.

2. Skype Mobile – the Skype product can also be used on your pocket PC or other handheld device to talk to your friends and colleagues for free, as long as you have wireless or 3G access to the internet.

3. Skype In – Skype give you a number all of your own that your friends and colleagues can contact you on , and where you pick up that call in your Skype interface. The numbers provided can be for a number of different geographies worldwide.

4. Skype Voicemail – to take your calls when you’re busy

5. Skype SMS – send SMS messages from your Skype account at any time.

So How Do I Sign Up?

Simple! To take advantage of the Free Skype Download, and to start using Skype now, simply click here or on the icon below.