Disruptive Telephony

Having just hit the ripe old age of 7, Skype is throwing a party for itself and giving every user 400 minutes to call a particular country during one month. Details at:

http://happybirthday.skype.com/

Skype promotes this as "400 minutes of calls to landlines" and the the little asterisk gives you this disclaimer:

This offer is applicable to our most popular 34 countries. If you choose to call the USA or India, you can also call mobiles as part of this offer

Regardless, it's a pretty cool offer if you frequently call people in those regions. Of course, it's curious to see the distribution of the "most popular 34 countries." For instance, it looks like my friends who want to call Canada are out of luck, eh?

Happy Birthday, Skype!

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