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Skype's UK PAYG hidden connection charge is 5p 18/11/2020

It is nice to see that Skype credit can again be used on a pay-as-you-go basis rather than having to buy a subscription.

However, there is a connection charge which makes calling more expensive than Three PAYG for short calls.  On checking my balance, I have worked this out as 5p, in that a 36 seconds phone call deducted 7p of credit and a 1m 15s deducted 9p of credit.

The rates are hard to find on Skype.com, here is how:

Click the tiny 'see rates' in the page as below:

It then comes up with a pop-up:


Footnote 1 in grey is the connection charge, apparently 4.4p but presumably rounded up for billing purposes.

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