{"id":200922,"date":"2017-03-01T13:16:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T11:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=200922"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T11:19:33","slug":"skype-wi-fi-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/200922-skype-wi-fi-killed.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype Wi-Fi killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.skype.com\/en\/faq\/FA10010\/is-skype-wifi-being-discontinued\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it is discontinuing its Skype Wi-Fi service on 31 March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Skype Wi-Fi offered users paid Internet access at over 2 million hotspots worldwide. Users paid for access using Skype Credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou won\u2019t be able to download the Skype Wi-Fi application, and if you still have Skype Wi-Fi installed after 31 March, the application will no longer be able to find and use hotspots,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Users who have Skype Credit can use it for Skype\u2019s other features, such as calling mobiles and landlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re retiring Skype Wi-Fi globally so we can better focus our efforts on bringing you the best possible experience through our core Skype features.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/199882-skype-lite-unveiled.html\">Skype Lite unveiled<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is discontinuing its Skype Wi-Fi service on 31 March 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":139216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1089,41686],"class_list":["post-200922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-skype","tag-skype-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200984,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200922\/revisions\/200984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}