Skype-In is a subscription service from Skype where you can purchase your own ‘online’ number. Anyone calling that local number will be forwarded to your skype account. The service has been offered by Skype for a couple of years already but only recently were you able to order a local South African number.

So now all those SA expats living on the muddle isle up north can give Grandmother Dearest in SA a local number to call them on without Gran having to waste away her pension on expensive international call rates… aah, thanks Skype!

Skype-In ‘online’ number costs $18 (R144) for 3 months or $60 (R480) for a full year. The numbers all seem to start with 27011083… so looks like a JHB local number.

There are also some great bundle deals using Skype-Out on offer, incl South Africa 400, World 400 and Unlimited World.

South Africa 400 offers 400 minutes worth of calls to landlines in South Africa per month and costs $14.95 (R120) per month… not bad at all, thats 30c a minute per call (normal SkypeOut rate is $ 0.078 or 62c ZAR). Are there any local VoIP providers offering these bundles?

I guess we should be thankful to finally have some choice in SA! Yipeee for Skypeee!