Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.15 Billion Deal confirmed

In a solid move to enter the VOIP market and give big G some serious competition, Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.15 billion dollars. Lets quickly understand how this move affects skype users like you.

The boards of both companies have agreed to the deal, as Ballmer will now head Skype directly. Once the merger is complete, Microsoft plans to add Skype support to its Xbox and Kinect gaming devices and Windows Phone mobile operating system. Expect some heavy marketing coming your way, once Microsoft gears up for its most promising move in retail VOIP business.

How does this affect skype users? Well, nothing will change for you. Skype will continue to offer free PC to PC service and most of their plans will remain the same. However, it would be interesting to see Microsoft will ever offer a free calling service like Google Voice.

For Now, $8.15 billion deal was a good exit for Ebay who have been suffering a lot after the skype deal and their bottom lines are hit badly. Microsoft can absorb the cost very well considering their overall strategy.

This really means that two giants Microsoft and Google will now battle it out in the US VoIP space with Microsoft having the international presence with skype. Either way, the customers will always be on the winning side.

FastVoip now offers Free Calls to 13 Countries including India

Yeah, India is now independent again. FastVoip announced their best ever deal to make India calls totally free along with other 12 countries where you can make free calls. Lets find out about the deal.

FastVoip, a leading VOIP company from Europe has just announced their biggest ever promotion to date. If you thought betamax was the only VOIP Provider to offer free calls per month to various destinations for a flat fee per month, then fastvoip has proved you wrong.

Betamax as you all know is a unreliable VOIP Provider which can go block your accounts without notice and freeze your balance. FastVoip has now emerged as a strong competitor after this latest announcement to offer free calls to over 13 countries including India Landine.

You can make calls to following countries using FastVoip.

Belgium
Netherlands
Canada (+mobile)
Poland
China
Sweden
France
Thailand
Germany
United Kingdom
India
United States (+mobile)
Italy

Please note the only calls to landline phones are free except for USA and Canada where calls to mobile phones are free too.

In order to use the Free Calls promotion, you need to make a minimum deposit of 5 Euro by Credit card or $7.50 by Ukash. You will need to recharge your account every month for this amount in order to keep the free call service active.

There is one more solid opportunity for all of you to make some money from fastvoip. I will discuss it later this week. For now, Download FastVoip and start making those free calls.