I was looking at Skype‘s Unlimited Calling subscriptions again, as I had one for a month before. Then I read the fair use policy only to find it to be ridiculous.

Calls to phones and mobiles and Skype To Go* calls are included in your subscription subject to a fair usage limit of 10,000 minutes per user per month, with a maximum of 6 hours per day. Also, no more than 50 different numbers in total can be called per day. If your subscription includes more than one country, then this is the total amount of minutes allowed per month on your account, and is not a separate limit for each country.

I understand the 10,000 minutes usage per month cause of how cheap the plans are, but only a maximum of 6 hours and only 50 different numbers each day, what’s up with that. Not only is that the limit per day, users have been saying if you hit the limit (post 1 and 2), you lose the subscription for the rest of the month.

It doesn’t really make any sense why they are called unlimited when they are not, seems misleading. Although I’d probably never hit one of those limits myself, so it’s not that big of a deal. I know one day I might though if I did have the plan continuously and that would be a problem.