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Microsoft Quietly Axes Skype Credit and Phone Number Sales To Push Subscriptions

Friday December 13, 2024. 05:15 PM , from Slashdot
Microsoft Quietly Axes Skype Credit and Phone Number Sales To Push Subscriptions
Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: The Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped letting users top-up accounts with credit and buy Skype phone numbers. From a report: Instead, Skype is locking into SaaS mode: It's pushing users to take monthly subscriptions for regional and global Skype-to-phone plans, for a set monthly fee, likely impacting millions of people. The most recent figures Microsoft released for Skype last year said it had 36 million daily active users.

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