iPhone Users Can Now Call Internationally for Free

If you want to talk to your friend who’s wining and dining in Florence for a semester, there’s good news for you: the Skype 2.0 app is here for the iPhone. Granted that she has her iPhone with Skype 2.0 as well, you can talk to him or her, wherever or whenever — for free, via 3G. And with excellent, “CD” quality.

But hopefully your friend is coming back before August, because that’s when they’re going to start charging a monthly fee to use it. {9to5mac} Does this seem fair to you?

• Yes, if you use Skype via regular phones, there’s a fee. It is long-distance calling, after all. BUT,
• Skype is free. Period. And granted, an iPhone is a phone at the end of the day, but isn’t a data plan fee for 3G coverage enough? Apparently not.

But we wouldn’t scowl at Skype just quite yet. There’s no saying that good ol’ Steve Jobs, one of the few powerful men in this world who can get away with grand decisions with the “because I said so!” excuse, isn’t in charge of this decision.

Or maybe AT&T is just ripping people off. According to Gizmodo, “the folks at Skype are now saying that a Skype app will hit the Android Marketplace later this year and be available to everyone regardless of carrier.” Skype, you’re off the hook.

Whoever’s to blame, take advantage of it while you can! Although, our real question is, when will they enable video calling? With the dual cameras widely expected based on the leaked iPhone deconstruction by Gizmodo, the wait may not be too long.