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Re: Skype

Postby media » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:46 pm

How do you know what is or is not a Skype phone?
How does it work with cell or sat phones?
Do I get a number that I can give out? Can non skype call my skype?
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Re: Skype

Postby vagabond » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:49 pm

https://support.skype.com/

How do you know what is or is not a Skype phone?


Like, if you were calling, using skype, to book a hotel room or something like that.

How does it work with cell or sat phones?


Not sure

Do I get a number that I can give out? Can non skype call my skype?


Yes and yes.
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Re: Skype

Postby Chelly » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:20 pm

to try to clarify for you Media, Skype is an app you install, and it's always free when talking to another Skype user (think MS Messenger or Yahoo Messenger), and you can talk in text chat format, voice to voice, webcam to webcam, or any combination therein you can think up.

They ALSO sell skype phone lines so you could have a local US number that would then call your computer based app through the internet, and they ALSO sell Skype minutes (monthly and pay as you go) that you can use to call anywhere in the world to regular land lines from your computer. (this is something that as far as I know the other "chat" programs can't do).

My reason for bringing this post to the top again was that I discovered I could call 800 numbers in North America from here in Nica for free. No need to use minutes on my cell, no need to go to an internet cafe. Who knows how useful this might be. Calling printers on behalf of my clients if they have an 800 number instead of a steady back-and-forth of emails and such.... who knows?


* edited to add Vagabond and me were responding at the same time - didn't mean to answer over top of you V.
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Re: Skype

Postby media » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:29 pm

So if I have SKYP and order a pizza via the local pizza joint I have to use SKYPE minutes? Unless they have a 1800 or skype phone?
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Re: Skype

Postby kilroy » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:41 pm

media wrote:So if I have SKYP and order a pizza via the local pizza joint I have to use SKYPE minutes? Unless they have a 1800 or skype phone?


correct. but skype is usually cheaper anyways even calling non-skype phones that calling card or other international rate. typically it's like a penny per minute.
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Re: Skype

Postby Chimborazo » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:12 pm

vagabond wrote:https://support.skype.com/

Do I get a number that I can give out? Can non skype call my skype?


Yes and yes.


Isn't there a regular fee for that though?
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Re: Skype

Postby vagabond » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:16 pm

I know not. I put $10 credit on my account and used very little of it while on the road for six months. I linked to the support site bc I have a feeling that might be a better than someone like me who used it abroad for one-way calls (either home or to credit card / banks). I would check the help section of that site for the nitty gritty
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Re: Skype

Postby kilroy » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:19 pm

Chimborazo wrote:
vagabond wrote:https://support.skype.com/

Do I get a number that I can give out? Can non skype call my skype?


Yes and yes.


Isn't there a regular fee for that though?


nope. i had skype for a while before putting money on it to make calls to landlines. if you want to recieve non-skype calls you need money though. there's two plans. a $10 a month plan or you can go pay as you go. unless you use it an obscene amount, the pay as you go is cheaper.
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Re: Skype

Postby Chimborazo » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:27 pm

I'm talking about to have your own number so people can call you. That's a monthly fee, right?
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Re: Skype

Postby kilroy » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:35 pm

Chimborazo wrote:I'm talking about to have your own number so people can call you. That's a monthly fee, right?


ah, right. that costs like 20 bucks for 3 months or i think 75 for a year? not sure on the exact rates. but what's good is that you can buy a number in one place and answer from another.
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Re: Skype

Postby media » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:37 pm

So I can get a 404(Atlanta) area code but answer in 919(Raleigh)?
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Re: Skype

Postby Chimborazo » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:43 pm

Yes, assuming they have numbers available in 404. From what I understand, it doesn't matter where you are.
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Re: Skype

Postby kilroy » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:57 pm

hell, you could get a number in hellsinki and answer in raleigh.
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Re: Skype

Postby media » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:00 pm

That's it I am SOLD! You folks are better than Billy Mayes!

I am going to talk to my Pakistani neighbor right now and we are going to start our own call center! We'll use SKYPE and re-name him Phil.....
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Re: Skype

Postby kilroy » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:05 pm

i'm not sure on what the deal is with forwarding the skype calls to your cell phone while you're away from your computer, though. you can do it, but i think that would incur charges from your cell phone provider depending on your plan. and like i said, pretty soon you may not be able to make skype calls to/from russia, depdending on what happens with the lawsuit the russian telecom companies filed goes.
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