Over the weekend I tested “Skype”‘s new Skypeout service by leaving a message for myself on my office voicemail.

Over the weekend I tested Skype’s new Skypeout service by leaving a message for myself on my office voicemail. It worked fine, although it was difficult to find out how to make the call. It turns out that to call a telephone from Skype, you need to dial “+” (plus sign), the country code, then the number. This wasn’t made particularly clear, nor was there any way in the UI to look up a country code. Personally, I had no idea what the country code for the United States was, and I suspect that probably most people won’t know the code for their own country.