Thankfully, there's a whole community of Android developers who bust their butts to solve problems like this one and, just a couple of days after the release, there's now a hack that rectifies the WiFi-calling-only-for-Americans situation.
the freedom of Skype on iPhone was available long before the freedom of Skype on Android. Feel the effing delay, not the free. Wait, wait, wait, Skype is great at making us all wait. Where is the Bluetooth support for Skype on the iPhone? Where is Skype video support? Wait, wait, wait... For iPhone and Android. Feel the wait.