Free SkypeOut in North America - why not here?

This really gets me. When SkypeOut - phoning any line from your computer - is free in the US and Canada (therefore making free telephony across the whole of North America a reality) why can we not have the same in the UK, in Europe or over to our northern American cousins? Surely this is one area the EU was set up to handle, helping create more links between its diverse peoples by providing, in one go, free communication between them. Allez Bruxelles!

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[Bernie Goldbach]

In many US communities, landline-to-landline is free already. In Europe, there is no government incentive to compel telcos to provide free local call service. You need that first before VoIP-to-landline is free as well.