This change will affect your contacts because the ones that you have added to Skype will be different from your Facebook friends. The majority of users should already be using the most recent version of the app, because Skype updates automatically. This means that voice calling will most likely go under this same subscription model, whether it’d be tied in with the same $0.99/year subscription or will act as a separate subscription, possibly requiring users to pay $1.99/year in order to use both messaging and voice calling.At the moment of this writing, the ability to use Facebook credentials has already been removed from Skype for Linux, Skype for Windows 10 (the Store app), and from modern versions of Skype for Android and iOS. The app’s voice calling features will be free, but it might only be free for a limited time, considering that users have to eventually pay a very small $0.99/year subscription for messaging.

The feature will come to the iPhone and Android first at some point during the second quarter this year, with BlackBerry and Windows Phone support to follow later on, although no timeline was given for these two platforms. The popular messaging app, which now has 465 million users monthly active users (330 million daily active users), was recently purchased by Facebook for a ton of money that most of us can’t even fathom, and it looks like its next order of business is to get make a dent in the voice calling market and take a chunk out of Skype’s dominance. The Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp is said to be gaining voice calling support within the next few months in order to take on Skype, according to The Guardian.

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