When considering business Internet telephone options, if you don't make long-distance calls very often, or if you don't use a lot of cell phone minutes, you can select the option that allows you to buy Skype credits and use them each time you make a call. Skype charges just 2.1 cents per minute for long distance calls, so with a $10 credit load, you can talk for about 475 minutes. Most cell phone plans with 300 daytime minutes cost upward of $50 per month, so this can be a substantial savings for home business owners.
For home business owners with many clients in other states, Skype has subscription services that can help you reduce your business Internet telephone expenses substantially. Unlimited calling to the United States and Canada is only $2.95 per month, for calls to both cell phones and land lines. If you've been paying $60 per month for your business cell phone, this can reduce business telephone expenses by around 90%. For $5.95 per month, callers can also get unlimited calls to Mexico landlines. The $9.95 per month package allows unlimited calls to U.S. and Canada landlines and cell phones and landlines in thirty-six (36) other countries. Note that the unlimited plan has a fair use limit of 10,000 minutes per month, but that should not be hard to adhere to unless you are on the phone all day, every day.
