Why does Skype make your credit inactive?

I was just curious on if anyone knew why Skype would de-activate your credit after 180 days. That irks me quite a bit seeing how I paid for those credits. If I just wanted to throw money money away I could do it faster if I walked over to at trashcan.
I have periods of time when I am active on skype for various reasons (interviews, traveling in a different country, poor cell phone reception, etc.) and other times when I am inactive. For this reason I decided to buy Skype Credit so I can have a form of communication incase my cell phone doesn't work. I almost lost that credit if I didn't sign in today. Shouldn't the policy be once paid for that you always have? What if I am in a situation where my phone craps out (Reception, breaks, battery runs out) and I have to make a very important call and I login to Skype to do so only to find out I'm screwed on that end as well?
I am just curious on your thoughts and was wondering if anyone can provide an explanation on this poor business practice (I'm a little jaded at this point).

I agree. This policy is extremely annoying for consumers. I think that it would help people if Skype were to give a reason why they insist on inactivating credit after 180 days and sending you endless emails about it and generally wasting their consumers' time.

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This is a repost, since this was not answered in roughly the last two years since it was posted. I would link to the old post, but it seems that it's "not permitted in this community" when I try to link to it.
The old post was posted in 2009, and had included several other users also asking for an explanation.
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quote from wikipedia, feel free to see their sources:
Since September 2007, users in China trying to download the Skype software client have been redirected to the site of TOM, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and Skype, from which a modified Chinese version can be downloaded.[116] The TOM client participates in China's system of Internet censorship, monitoring text messages between Skype users in China as well as messages exchanged with users outside the country.[117][118] Niklas Zennström, then chief executive of Skype, told reporters that TOM "had implemented a text filter, which is what everyone else in that market is doing. Those are the regulations." He also stated: "One thing that’s certain is that those things are in no way jeopardising the privacy or the security of any of the users."[119] In October 2008, it was reported that TOM had been saving the full message contents of some Skype text conversations on its servers, apparently focusing on conversations containing political issues such as Tibet, Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, and the Chinese Communist Party. The saved messages contain personally identifiable information about the messages' senders and recipients, including IP addresses, usernames, land line phone numbers, and the entire content of the text messages, including the time and date of each message. Information about Skype users outside China who were communicating with a TOM-Skype user was also saved. A server misconfiguration made these log files accessible to the public for a time.[118][120][121] "
I think your customers (including me) deserve an answer.

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