Skype Out quality so poor it is now unusable

Dear Community,
Is anyone else having major issues with Skype Out quality lately?
I am based in UK with a very fast (40Mb/s) internet link and a newish MacBook Pro, but when calling the US, NL or UAE within seconds of making a connection the line bandwidth appears to be narrowed so far that I cannot hear or be heard.
This started a few weeks ago and has got so bad that I now have stopped using Skype Out.
Is anyone else experiencing this or do I have a problem? If the latter, any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Best,
Rob

Hi Rob,
Sorry to hear about the bad call quality you were encountering. Did you use the post call feedback option to share this experience? This way we can easily detect call quality degregation and take appropriate actions.
I can see that you have had several calls that lasted longer, so it seems not all of your calls in the past weeks were affected. Is that correct?
This leads to believe the problem is actually not on your end, but when terminating the calls. And for that Skype needs the call quality feedback information to be able to identify how these bad calls were terminated. Sorry that I can't share any better news/solution yet.
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