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When making calls/texting internationally with Skype, does the receiving person get charged?

I've got Skype credit, and I was going to use it to call/text a friend's mobile in the UK. I understand it deducts from my Skype credit the appropriate per minute/message cost, but does it do the same to them? or will it just be a regular call for them using minutes/texts like usual?

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  • 1 decade ago

    The cost to receive a call from Skype is always local, both in mobile phones and landline phones, since Skype delivers the call to the local ISP.

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    4 years ago

    The cellular telephone companies right here interior the U. S. fee for issues that are no longer often charged for interior the united kingdom. a million) With some minor exceptions all US cellular companies fee for incoming calls and textual content textile messages. the guy you call does no longer get charged something extra for receiving and international call, yet they could could pay their regularly occurring in line with minute fee (or have the minutes taken out of their minute pool) to receive your call. textual content textile messages artwork an identical way, shoppers pay a flat fee in line with message in spite of the place it comes from, or they are in a position to purchase a kit that features a definite form of messages. regrettably the distributors DO fee extra to receive a international textual content textile message in spite of no rely if the subscriber has a plan ornot. 2) the respond right this is comparable to for selection one. No fee to receive a voice call above the conventional fee in line with minute for making use of their cellular telephone and an added fee for receiving a international textual content textile message. 3) Receiving calls on your place line costs the receiver no longer something extra in spite of the place the call originates. Receiving calls on a cellular telephone is a flat fee in line with minute in spite of the place a decision originates. I comprehend that the billing equipment interior the U. S. is extremely distinctive from that latest in maximum different places. right here we pay for the two incoming and outgoing calls to boot as textual content textile messages. In essence the telephone businesses gets a commission two times for each call and textual content textile on the cellular community. Landlines are plenty extra logical in which you purely pay for incoming calls. i'm hoping that solutions your question.

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