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Does anyone know much about this? Or even better use it?

I contract to a firm where basically I need to be able to take calls. I am thinking of spending a month in Spain (but working whilst there) and wondered whether I can set up a skype telephone account in order to take/make these calls, and not end up with a £bazillion mobile phone bill.

Is this a good/my best option. Does it feel like a normal phone line when in use  (I am not concerned about a weird telephone number)

thanks for any advice

G

I use skype all the time, although not for business reasons.

You can put skype credit onto a normal skype account. For calling a landline it costs around 1.9p a minute, so very little. When calling a mobile its abour 14p a minute. Both these prices are the same whether calling from spain to england or england to england, ie being abroad dosnt matter (as far as I'm aware  - i can certainly ring England from Germany for the prices above).

I haven't got a skype telephone number though, so if people want to ring me they also need a skype account. Pretty sure its fairly cheap ringing etc with a skype number too but not totally sure! hope this is helpful anyway!

Was using skype to call UK landlines from vegas and it was 0.54p/minute

doesnt sound that cheap!

probably cheaper to buy a mobile in the local area and  let people call me and suffer teh cost?

Not sure what Dan was doing to get charged that much?

Main issue with Skype is that its shit.

Err, I may be misreading, but does he mean 0.54p? As in just over 1/2 a penny? Or does that mean 54p?

According to here (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/call-rates/cheap-calls-to-united-kingdom/?currency=gbp), landline calls are between 1.4 and 0.7p /min, mobiles 14.9p/min.

So I suspect he meant 1/2 a penny. These prices are $ converted to £, so exchange rate could make it that.

Sounds pretty cheap to me at .5p a minute.

With a decent internet connection VOIP (voice over IP) can work well, and Skype is obviously the most well-known in this area, although there are others you can use that might give you a more reliable service,

I regularly use skype to make overseas calls and the quality has always been good.  The cost of the call is something like Euro 0.02/minute so you do not have much to lose.

cool ty

I obv misinterpretted D'Mo's post  -i might look into this quite seriously

A month in spain sounds like what i need!

Yeah I meant just over half a penny a minute. Six or seven phone calls to a UK landline cost me about £2.50 and had no call quality problems at all

Calling your mum and dad?

They're probably the only people I know that are best contacted by landline :P

I was using skype in Vegas Guy, and it was really cheap like Dan said.

However, since I had 3G turned off (roaming charges are stupid abroad), I could only use skype when I had access to a wifi connection. Something to maybe consider?

Check your network provider, I'm pretty sure I saw some networks offer free roaming in Europe and even free to recieve calls.

Have a read of the following: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-roaming-calls