Much like hotmail to outlook, you are upgrading all of MSN messenger to skype. Well, that's terrific, but THERE IS NO BROADBAND where I live. So if I don't voluntarily upgrade to skype, do I lose all of Messenger contacts suddenly? Why are you restricting use something to only people living in areas that have Broadband? So if I don't sign into skype in the first year are all of my contacts gone? How does this work?

Like I said, I have no way to use SKype. I am on a 14.4 connection because the phone lines up the mountain are old, and no companies have seen fit to run new lines, so no cable TV, Satellite internet and TV is not an option because, Oh! Mountain's in the way! There is no 3G or 4G or LTE here. There is normal cell phones (barely).
So seriously, what is someone like me supposed to do with this?

The important question is this: Since you are stripping our ability to use MSN, how long will my contacts be preserved since I have no way of using Skype?