Mother's Day Gift: Free Call for US Troops by Verizon and Free Calls for Everyone by Skype

While the US senate is trying to decide whether US Government will able to fund the Iraq war in next month, Verizon Business, a leading telephone and Internet service provider company of US, is offering free phone calls to the military personnel of US troops currently appointed in Iraq. This is not the first time Verizon is offering free calls for US troops. Earlier also since last fours years Verizon is offering few good services to US military personnel who are away from their home and relatives and appointed in Iraq. Verizon Business will provide free calls for US military personnel during the major US holidays of this year 2007. This is a tribute to those soldiers who are trying hard to establish the peace in Iraq and securing our lives.

The free call service weeks will be as follows: 10th May to 16^th May for Mother's Day in the United States, 14^th June to 20^th June for Father's Day in the United States and 1^st July to 7^th July for U.S. Independence Day. During this period US solders will be able to call their home in free from Iraq. This is one initiative where Verizon proved its responsibility towards federal government. Recently Verizon Business disclosed this calling plan to media at the verge of Mother's Day.

There is yet another good offer from Skype. Everyone wants to make the Mother's Day a great eventful day. One of the renowned Voice over IP (VoIP) service provider, Skype, is going to offer free calls during Mother's day to its users of US and Canada, who will be able to make free calls each other to anywhere in the world. During this offer any call originated in US or Canada and directed to any mobile or landline within US or Canada will be free. Skype call between two computers is always free. If Skype users want to call any international mobile or landline number using their Skype account they have to pay for the SkypeOut service. This means the international call is not free during this promotional period. The calls within US and Canada only will be free. The offer will be valid from May 13th 2007, 5:00 am (Eastern Time GMT-5.00) to May 14th 2007 4:59 am (Eastern Time GMT-5.00). The first 200 minutes are free per user under this promotional offer. This offer is named as 'Mother's Day Gift of Gab' by Skype. In order to track the minutes used by any Skype user, Skype imposed few restrictions on this offer. The offer is valid with US & Canada and for US & Canada resident only. If someone try to use any IP blocker software and don't want to disclose the system IP while calling, Skype will forcefully terminate that call in order to avoid any possible misuse of this offer. So be honest and enjoy this offer.

Sources -

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070509/nyw023.html?.v=96

http://www.skype.com/campaigns/giftofgab