Skype: What does call forwarding cost?
Skype offers numerous features, including offers such as call forwarding. We'll tell you here what the call forwarding costs.
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Skype can completely replace your phone if you have internet access. With the practical call forwarding function, you can have your calls forwarded to up to three mobile or landline numbers worldwide. There are various variants available.
- If you have Skype calls forwarded to other Skype contacts from your contact list, you will not incur any costs.
- With other variants, the costs depend on which payment method you prefer. You can choose between the Skype credit and the subscription. You must pay for the Skype credit in advance. Although there are higher costs, you have no obligations.
- Call forwarding always costs you the price you would have to pay for a call.
- With the Skype credit, for example, you pay 2.2 cents per minute for call forwarding to a landline number within Germany.
- Call forwarding to a mobile connection in Germany already costs 23.6 cents per minute.
- If you have a subscription, the diversion to a landline connection within Germany will only cost you 0.5 cents per minute.
- If your subscription includes both landline numbers and mobile connections, you will pay between 3.3 and 5.3 cents per minute within Germany.
- Skype also offers packages for connections to landlines.
- This includes the Germany package with 3.55 euros per month as well as the Europe package for 6.89 euros and the world package for 12.06 euros per month.
- The Europe package is available for fixed network and mobile phone subscriptions for EUR 36.79 per month.
- If you go abroad for a while, a subscription in the respective country is usually the cheapest option.
- But no matter which variant you choose, the caller generally incurs no costs.
The prices are as of November 27, 2013 and already include VAT. In addition to the cheap telephone offers, Skype has a number of other chargeable services for you, which we will bring you closer to here.