Skyping in Damascus?

I assume that Skype is now well established enough to turn it into a verb.

After a week crossing the Aegean coast of Turkey by bus, I arrived in Damascus to start my project work with To Learn Arabic. I am impressed as always by the information technology infrastructure available in “developing” nations. Minutes after arriving and navigating my way to the center of town, I was sitting using a fast dual-core Intel base PC, videoconferencing via Skype to the east coast of the United States. And predictably, the cell-phone service cheap, reliable, and does not lock customers into a plan or a phone.