The monthly subscription plans start at $2.95 per month, which allows you to make unlimited calls to landlines and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada. The Unlimited Country subscription allows you to make unlimited calls to a specific country of your choosing for $5.95 per month. The third subscription is called Unlimited World and allows you to make unlimited calls to landlines in over 40 countries worldwide for $12.95 per month.

One very cool thing about Skype is that you can make video calls, as long as both ends of the call have webcams setup. Amazingly, this is a free option for Skype to Skype video calls. Skype is not your traditional VoIP solution, but it’s certainly worth looking into as a low cost option of making unlimited local and long distance calls in the U.S. and Canada.