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Skype's new beta for Windows (3.1 beta) comes with an interesting feature: the ability to charge people who are calling you. Dubbed Skype Prime, the new beta service allows customers to charge incoming callers by the minute or assess a one-time fee. Skype believes that the service will spur new business models, including fee-based help services online.
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The new service only works on Skype-to-Skype calls, but this also accounts for how customizable the experience is. All calls placed using Skype are free at first, but after making a connection to a Skype Prime partner, a number of payment options become possible. A caller can review those payment options in the Skype client, and chose to accept them or not. No fees are automatically paid just by calling a Skype Prime member, in other words.
If there's a hitch in the plan, it's Skype's plan to shave 30 percent off the top of revenues collected. This hefty share will be assessed after Skype's sister company, PayPal, deducts its usual 2-3 percent from the transaction. That rate is twice what competitor Ether charges, although Ether has neither the user base nor the brand name recognition. Ether does offer the ability to charge POTS users, however.
Skype Prime will eventually be supported on Mac OS X, as well. lol