Microsoft has quietly ended the sale of new credits and phone number features for Skype this week. Skype Credit and Skype Number are both being discontinued in favor of Microsoft pushing ...

One of its other paid services allowed users to buy a local phone number so they could both make and receive calls as though they were in a given country. Skype also monetized through a separate ...

You can now only buy a subscription instead of credits, and you’ll have to seek out other platforms offering a virtual phone number you can answer over VoIP. Skype-to-Skype calls have always ...