Emergency Services and infrequent use of Skype

As a member of a small remote fire brigade with no mobile coverage and unreliable landline phone, I established a Skype account with credit. The idea is to have the ability to call from a laptop via satellite Internet access in an emergency when there are no phone services. This is not a service that will be regularly used (hopefully) but remains dormant. Having to re-activate the credit defeats the purpose as this is likely to be required at a time of emergency. Is there a way for emergency services to be exempted from this rule?

Hi and welcome to the Skype Community,
Here's some really important information for you: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA29/can-i-call-an-emergency-number-from-skype
The most important part is that for most countries we do not actually terminate calls to emergency numbers. So you might want to revisit your set up in general.
No back to your question about credit reactivation:
This process is instantaneous: As soon as you click the reactivation link on your Skype web account page you will be able to use it right away. We don't have the capability to exclude individual accounts from that credit deactivation, I'm afraid.

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