CORRECTING and REPLACING Skype Kicks Off Chinese New Year by Offering Free Calls to China's Global Ex-pat Community

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SKYPE KICKS OFF CHINESE NEW YEAR BY OFFERING FREE CALLS TO CHINA'SGLOBAL EX-PAT COMMUNITY

Skype(TM), the global Internet communications company, andChinagate, the world's largest overseas Chinese community portal,today announced an agreement that will enable Chinagate members toconnect with overseas friends and relatives for free using Skype'sInternet calling software. The new offering will be made availablethrough the new co-branded Web site skype.chinagate.com.

The new Web site offers the first Chinese version of Skype outsideof China and serves the vast majority of Chinagate members who usesimplified Chinese. The Skype service enables users to make unlimitedvoice and video calls for free. Also included with the service isSkypeOut(TM), a feature which allows users to call from Skype tolandlines and mobile phones, and SkypeIn(TM), a feature which allowsusers to choose a country and area code and secure a traditionaltelephone number. With SkypeIn, anyone may call the user at theirSkypeIn number wherever they are in the world.

"We are delighted to work with Skype in bringing our users thefirst simplified Chinese version of Skype outside of China," saidWayne Lin, president of Gatechina Inc., the company behind theChinagate portal. "I am confident that our community members willbenefit immensely from this unique opportunity to communicate in theirnative language to loved ones in China and across the world."

The Chinagate portal well-known as wenxuecity.com hosts thelargest Chinese ex-pat community and currently attracts an estimated700,000 unique visitors every day. The site provides a broad range ofinformation relevant to the Chinese community including late breakingnews, community forums and literature. Most Chinagate members areoriginally from China and now reside in 95 countries with most membersresiding in the United States and Canada.

In order to use the service, Chinagate members simply click todownload the Chinagate/Skype software at skype.chinagate.com and startmaking calls immediately to anywhere in the world.

"The global reach and appeal of Skype is growing at anunprecedented rate and we are particularly excited to extend ourservice offerings to the Chinagate community," said James Bilefield,VP of business development, Skype. "We are also very proud to offernew language capabilities through our co-branded website and we lookforward to further developing our relationship with Chinagate."

About Skype

Skype is the world's fastest-growing service for Internetcommunication, allowing people everywhere to make unlimited voicecalls for free. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used inalmost every country around the world. Skype generates revenue throughits premium service offerings such as making and receiving calls toand from landline and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and callforwarding services. Skype also has relationships with a growingnetwork of hardware and software providers. Skype is an eBay company(NASDAQ: EBAY). To learn more visit skype.com.

Skype is not a telephony replacement service and cannot be usedfor emergency calling.