RussellMc wrote:

> Rather surprisingly (to me) Skype gives me from Skype here to phone
> "there" for US 2.1 cents to USA landline and cellphone and China
> landline and cellphone, and from China and Hongkong internet to NZ
> phones  (and elsewhere) at the same rate.=20
>=20
> Calling on Skype in NZ to a NZ cellphone costs me about 20
> cents/minute.=20

Probably NZ is in the same boat with countries like Brazil and Germany:
the price structure of the cellphone market is so that it's not the
owners of the cellphones that pay for the cellphone infrastructure, it's
the callers that call cellphones. There's nothing any VoIP service can
do to lower that part of those rates, so many such rates are already as
low as it gets.=20

This is different in e.g. the USA, where you find that for a caller
there is no difference between calling a landline or a cellphone line.
IMO this is how it should be. Just check in Skype for the countries that
have different rates for landlines and cellphones.

Besides not calling cellphones or calling them only collect, there's not
much you can do to get around those rates...

Gerhard
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