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Skype Offers End-of-Year Bundle Pack TMCnet Contributing Editor Skype (News - Alert) announced on Thursday that it will offer the “Skype End-of-Year Bundle Pack,” a combination of the VoIP
 service provider’s products and services right in time for the holiday season. The Skype End-of-Year Bundle Pack includes an SMC WiFi
phone, a La Fonera WiFi (News - Alert) router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and 12 months of Skype voicemail for $159.99. The bundle can be found online, under the name “SMC WiFi Phone Package.” The 500 SkypeOut minutes in the End-of-Year Bundle are based on calls to destinations that fall under the SkypeOut Global Rate, applicable to calls to fixed lines in more than 30 countries.
The VoIP service provider announced that it is also offering the new NETGEAR SPH101 and Belkin WiFi Phone for Skype phones on its online store.
There has been a lot of buzz lately about Skype for its partnership with iSkoot and 3. Originally set to launch on December 15th, the Skype-enabled X-Series handsets from 3 actually launched in UK last Friday, also in time for the holidays. The devices, which use the iSkootMobile software, are currently available in 3’s UK stores, and also in 3’s other markets around the world beginning early 2007.
X-Series customers will now be able to make unlimited Skype calls from their Nokia (News - Alert) N73, and from more handsets in the future.
Cambridge, Mass. iSkoot had announced its partnership with Skype back in August. The companies announced back then that they would co-market mobile-PC calling products. The partnership would enable iSkoot to mass market Java-phones, as well as high-end smartphones, to place and receive Internet calls through Skype’s software via handsets, without the need for PCs, special hardware, or WiFi hot spots.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne’s columnist page.
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