Consumers in the U.S. and Canada can take advantage of Internet communications over Skype by placing free SkypeOut calls to any landline or mobile number around the world on Mother's Day (May 13, 2007). Sponsored by Intel, the "Gift of Gab" promotion represents the first time that U.S. and Canadian users will be able to make free SkypeOut calls to anywhere in the world for a period of 24 hours. Calls from one registered Skype user to another remain free. Usually, SkypeOut calls are billed at per-minute fees depending on the location called, with rates beginning at the low Skype global dialing rate of 2.1 cents per minute.
Not convinced? Skype pulled out a statistic from a survey it commissioned to persuade customers into calling: sixty-two percent of moms just want a phone call saying I love you on Mother's Day, yet only 35 percent actually receive phone calls, according to the survey.
http://www.skype.com/go/giftofgab
