Skype Credit: How Do I Use It?

With Skype credit you can pay for paid services such as apps, games and calls to landlines and mobiles. You can also send SMS and use the over 200, 000 WiFi hotspots from Skype WiFi.

Use Skype Credit

• Open Skype and click the "Skype" button in the top left of the menu. There you will find the "Account" item.
• Here you can see an overview of all free and paid services. You can buy or subscribe to them.
• SMS and telephony: A call over Skype costs 7.1 cents per minute to the German landline network and 32.5 cents to the mobile network. An SMS costs 11.7 cents. If you plan to use Skype more often and for longer, you can also find out about a corresponding subscription.
• Skype Premium: With a Skype Premium subscription you get numerous additional functions. Among other things, the advertising disappears, you can start group video calls and make unlimited calls to a country of your choice.
• Skype number: This feature gives you a real mobile phone number that can be called by other people. You answer the call via Skype. The caller only pays the normal tariff for a call to the mobile network.
• Call forwarding: calls that go to your Skype account are forwarded to your mobile phone as soon as you are offline.