As a ZANA Network member, you can maximize your local and international personal and business communications through Skype, a global internet communications company founded in 2003. With this service, you use your internet connection like a telephone to make quality calls from your computer. Skype is available in 28 languages and used in almost every country around the world by millions of people for calls, instant messaging, file transfers, video and conference calling.

Free calling

When you make Skype-to-Skype calls, they are free. All you need is a headset or use your computer’s built-in microphone and speakers. Free features include:

    * Calling other Skype users
    * Free transfer of Skype calls to other Skype contacts
    * Free video calls
    * Free one-to-one and group chats
    * Free conference calls with up to nine people
    * Free forwarding calls to other Skype

Paid calling

Make inexpensive local, long distance and international calls to phones and cell phones. Skype offers two calling payment options: Skype Credit – a prepay system for Skype products and features, and Skype Pro – easy-to-use bundled features for one low monthly fee. The company offers these paid calling features:

    * Skype Unlimited – 12 months of unlimited calls to any phone within the United States and Canada for $29.95 (U.S. dollars)
    * Calls to international phones at low, per-minute rates
    * SkypeIn™ – receive calls from people who don’t use Skype
    * Voicemail (send and receive)
    * Call forwarding to phones at Skype calling rates
    * SMS message sending from Skype

Skype is perfect for any size business

Use Skype for your business to centrally manage your employees’ internal and long distance calls, including text messaging, at a low cost. Here is what you get:

• Free Skype-to-Skype calls – by switching employees to Skype, the cost of internal calling is removed.
• SkypeOut™ – make low cost calls to landlines and cell phones from Skype
• SMS (text) message sending from the computer instead of the cell phone
• Business Control Panel, a free web-based tool for you to control your Skype Credit expenditures, manage credit balances, setup automatic credit allocation, and print expenditure reports.

Take advantage of the convenient, cost-saving communications option today.