Skype to compensate customers affected by recent service outage

In an attempt to apologize to its users for the Wednesday outage of its VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, Skype has decided to offer compensation to its paying clients who could not make calls while the notably long shutdown of the service.

Ever since the outage, the users of Skype's VoIP service faced problems, which continued then past 48 hours, in logging in to the service.

Bates specified that the audio, video and IM were already running in the main, even though some of the other offerings of the company, including offline IM and Group Video Calling, were not available but.

Apology for the outage

Rendering an apology for the outage, and adding that it was difficult to make up for the missed experience, Bates said that Skype will compensate its `Pay As You Go' and `Pre-Pay' with a Skype Credit voucher, which the users can use for getting near 30 minutes of free calling to landlines anywhere in the world.