The Skype VoIP Headset allows you to make totally free phone calls across the world using your Internet connection using Skype. Skype now has over 100 million customers worldwide each able to make and receive free calls to other Skype users. Compatible with nearly all available computers, the Skype VoIP Headset simply connects to the microphone and audio sockets in your sound card and you're ready to go!

Skype software is available for free download at www.skype.com. Available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Pocket PC. Once simply installed on your computer, you are able to make free calls across the world to other Skype users with your stylish headset.

You can also make extremely cheap calls across the net - a call to Australia costs just 1p per minute and calls to other worldwide countries cost no more than a few pence per minute.

About Skype

Skype (pronounced to rhyme with ripe) is a peer-to-peer internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of Kazaa. The network is provided by all combined users of the free desktop software application. Skype users can speak to other Skype users for free, call traditional telephone numbers for a fee (SkypeOut), receive calls from traditional phones (SkypeIn), and receive voicemail messages.

Features

The basic computer-to-computer service allows users to speak, to send text messages or to send files to one another from their computers via the Internet at no cost using a Skype enabled phone, headset or microphone and speakers. Conferences of up to five users are supported. SkypeOut is the paid feature of the Skype internet telephony service, which allows Skype users to call virtually any non-PC-based phones in the world.

The free Skype service allows users to speak for free between each other anywhere in the world. Unlike Skype, SkypeOut allow service users to speak, through the program and a microphone to any landline or mobile phone anywhere in the world.

Unlike international long-distance calls made from conventional phones, which are rated according to the relative distance between countries, SkypeOut bills all calls according to the relative size of the country, the volume of calls made from and to a given country, and how any country's government restricts international calls (this may explain the high cost per minute of calls placed to countries such as Cuba or North Korea). This rating method is used due to the fact that calls are rated the same regardless of place of origin. This way, a SkypeOut user will be billed the same for a called place to a phone number in London, whether the user is calling from his/her PC in London itself, or from an internet cafe in Sydney.

SkypeIn allows Skype users to receive calls on their computers dialled by regular phone subscribers to regular phone numbers. Beta released March 10, 2005, SkypeIn permits users to subscribe to numbers in UK, USA, France, Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Cost is 30 Euro for a 12-month subscription, or 10 Euro for a three month subscription.

Voicemail was also released on March 10, 2005. This service allows callers to leave voice-mail messages for Skype users who are not online, on another call or otherwise indisposed. This can be purchased separately or it is bundled with SkypeIn.