Check this out,

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/allfeature...ns/europeworld/

£7.99/month for unlimited free call landlines in some country...very good offer!!

Shame there is no unlimited free call landlines to Pakistan :(

Interesting post from Skype forum:

Primo, this might happen if only India and Pakistan would allow VoIP call termination. At the moment all VoIP providers have to use private, illegal exchanges.

Secundo, India is such a large country that domestic call rates would never be low enough to make free calls economically viable. You can now have free calls over Europe/USA/China/Australia with any betamax... but I really doubt India or Pakistan would join the bandwagon soon - unless and until they develop their telecom infrastructure the way China has done.

For the time being, it looks that Pakistan is heading in an opposite doirection, and there have been reports that the port UDP 5060, used for SIP signalling, has been blocked all over the country. And still no news about any plans of connecting the country to the world's internet apart from the existing one FLAG connection in Karachi.

Anyway, it's not upto Skype or other VoIP provider but upto the Indian/Pakistani governments at the moment.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=58728


Pakistan is so behind of communication technology (Broadband/VOIP/ADSL2/IPTV/etc)

Pakistan isn't behind at all, we have fibre optics and what not.
In-fact in South Asian region we are the most ahead, if anything.

PTCL charges a lot for incoming calls too, unlike most competetors.
Take a calling card, try it, dial an Indian or Bangladesh number, after the prompt of how many mins available, cut and dial a Pakistani number, you'll get almost half those minutes.

Go to freefax.com and click on coverage areas.
You'll notice you can send faxes for free, via PC, to almost the entire region, but Pakistan.

PTCL needs to be privatised, and cleanse themselves of red-tapism, it's not as if we're behind.