{"id":746,"date":"2007-03-10T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/set-up-a-premium-rate-skype-service\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:58:10","slug":"set-up-a-premium-rate-skype-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/set-up-a-premium-rate-skype-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Set up a premium rate Skype service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"skype_logo_1.jpg\" id=\"image747\" alt=\"skype_logo_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/03\/skype_logo_1.jpg\" \/>Seemingly in an effort to prove its worth as a major player in the telephony sector, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a> is now allowing users to set up premium-rate services through the program. If you fancy setting up your own technical support line, or even a &#8216;adult chat&#8217; line, you can now do so thanks to the Skype Prime feature within the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.en.softonic.com\/ie\/56982\">beta release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new service allows customers to charge incoming callers by the minute or require a one-time fee, providing pay-for services at the click of a button. Once activated, the new feature, which only works with with Skype-to-Skype calls, prompts callers to make a payment to connect to a Skype Prime partner via a number of payment methods.<\/p>\n<p>Skype\u2019s decision to include this service comes in the wake of a growth spurt in the number of question-and-answer-style services that allow users to get instant responses to a particular query. Following the success of online services such as <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.google.com\/\">Google Answers<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo! Answers<\/a>, Skype aims to snare customers who want to provide fast answers to their users&#8217; questions. This sounds great for businesses that can\u2019t afford to set up their own premium access telephony systems, though it\u2019s worth baring in mind that Skype will charge you a 30 percent fee of the revenues you reap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly in an effort to prove its worth as a major player in the telephony sector, Skype is now allowing users to set up premium-rate services through the program. If you fancy setting up your own technical support line, or even a &#8216;adult chat&#8217; line, you can now do so thanks to the Skype Prime &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/set-up-a-premium-rate-skype-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Set up a premium rate Skype service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2559],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionskype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337847,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/337847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}