Microsoft quietly axes Skype credit and phone number sales to push subscriptions [Yahoo! Finance]
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Existing Skype phone numbers and credit will still work, but users must use their credit at least once every 180 days for it to remain active. This change is likely to impact tens of millions of people who used Skype for its phone functionality, and is part of Microsoft's effort to shift the service to a subscription-based model. Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: the Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped letting users top-up accounts with credit and buy Skype phone numbers . Instead, Skype is locking into SaaS mode: it's pushing users to take monthly subscriptions for regional and global Skype-to-phone plans, for a set monthly fee, likely impacting millions of people. The most recent figures Microsoft released for Skype last year said it had 36 million daily active users. Microsoft did not officially announce the change: News of it was only spotted last week, in the form of a response from a volunteer moderator on a Microsoft forum to a
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