"jdoe" <jdoe@msn.com> wrote in
news:rpSdnXQ_cYOHGsnYnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@insightbb.co m:
> If I get a phone call from the UK what are the charges?
Get a call...same as always, airtime.
Make a call to UK? Screw Verizon. You can MAKE a call to UK from your
cell for airtime plus US2.1c/min, from anywhere you can call your house.
Install Skype on your computer on broadband.
http://www.skype.com/
FREE
Install Voxlib on your computer on broadband.
http://www.voxlib.com/
Beta test right now is free, but it'll be cheap later and is really worth
it.
Leave your computer online. It doesn't hurt, ya know. You can download
from usenet while making calls through Vox and Skype just fine. I do
that all the while.
To call England, you need a $28/YEAR Skype In phone number so you can
call your own Skype from your cell. Anyone call call that number. When
you call, having told Voxlib your cellphone number so it picks up the
caller id, it answers with a sweet-young-thing reading you the menu. To
call England on Skype to Skype for free, press 3 to get her to read the
contacts online at the moment, then select one of them by pressing their
number and she will set up the Skype conference for you. To call any
English phone for 2.1c/min press 2, enter the country code and the whole
English phone number. Vox will call them on your Skype Out (costs $10 to
charge up your account it uses, prepaid) and conference you and
them....or as many people as you want to talk to at once...(c;
Screw Verizon and the rest of them ripping off the LD charge hogs. Works
great and audio is first class. Skype and Vox will also forward all your
Skype In calls to your Skype In number to your cellphone, too. Anyone in
England with Skype on their computer can also call for FREE! They call
your Skype from their Skype, direct. Vox answers the call and asks them
to wait a second until you answer your cell. Voila...England to your
house, skype-to-skype, for free, forwarded to your cell. After Jan 2007
that forwarded call will cost YOU 2.1c/min for the Skype Out call to your
cell...plus airtime, of course. This year it's free...(c;
I call my buddy on Okinawa's Skype from the cellphone a lot. Airtime-R-
Us....after 9PM..(c;....free.
Larry
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