Question: what are skype calling rates?
Answer: And "a bit" is the operative phrase — just $2.99 per month gets you a Skype subscription that allows up to 2,000 minutes of calls within the US; after that it's an extra 15 cents per minute. For $6.99 a month, you get 2,000 minutes of calls to all of North America, after that it's 35 cents per minute.