"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$+ per minute for international calls. This basically makes it irrelevant.
I think this is huge. Mobile networks still charge 2$+ per minute for international calls. This basically makes it irrelevant.
Voice is bandwidth intensive.
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.