Major Features:

1. Free video calling
   • Why just talk when you can see each other face-to-face? Video call your family in Australia, your friends in Spain or your colleagues in Japan, for free. It’s the next best thing to being there.
2. Call phones and mobiles
   • Call people all over the world on their phone or mobile from just 0.9c per minute (1c incl. VAT)* using Skype
3. Free Skype calls
   • Talk to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world, for free with a Skype-to-Skype call. Catch up with your backpacking brother in Asia, check in with your boss away in the US – call any Skype contact for free
4. Group video calling
   • Catch up face-to-face with more people at the same time on a group video call with Skype. Whether you’re kicking off a project or showing off the latest addition to the family, it’s the next best thing to being there
5. Other features
   • Conference calls
   • • Talk to more than one person at once. It's free if you're all on Skype.
   • Skype To Go numbers
   • • Call people at great value rates from your mobile with special access numbers.
   • Online Numbers
   • • One number anyone can call you on, wherever you are in the world - and you answer in Skype.
   • Voicemail
   • • Let Skype take a message when you’re not free to talk
   • Call forwarding
   • • Forward your Skype calls to any phone you choose when you’re not online.
   • Call transfer
   • • Transfer a Skype call to anyone else on Skype, or to a phone number.
   • Caller ID
   • • Show it's you when you call a phone number from Skype.
   • Screen sharing
   • • Show presentations, photos and more over a Skype call.
   • Instant messaging
   • • The quick way to chat without having to make a call.
   • Send files
   • • Send documents, video clips or photos – any size for free.
   • SMS
   • • Send great rate text messages to friends' mobiles with SMS on Skype.
   • Skype Access
   • • Get online with public WiFi using Skype Credit so you only pay for what you use.
   • Facebook News Feed
   • • See your friends’ latest Facebook news in Skype. 

• PC running Windows® XP, Vista or 7, both 32- and 64-bit operating systems.
• Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls).
• Speakers and microphone – built-in or separate.
• For voice calls recommend broadband connection with 100 kbps down / 100 kbps up.
• For group video calling everyone on the call needs Skype 5.0 for Windows or Mac or higher plus webcams, and at least one person needs a group video calling subscription.  For best quality  they recommend you use a high-speed broadband connection of 4Mbps down / 512kbps up and a computer with a Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz processor. As a minimum you’ll need a high-speed broad connection of 512kbps down / 128kbps up and a computer with a 1 GHz processor.