Skype to Offer Free Calling to Handsets

In a move to ramp adoption in North America and maintain its lead in VoIP telephony, Skype has announced free calling to land and mobile phone numbers, for the remainder of 2006, for US and Canadian users.

When a company like Skype, which already counts 100 million users worldwide, has to resort to such a huge increase in customer-acquisition costs, we begin to see the enormous fight shaping up in the telco universe. This is gonna be huge.