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« on: July 25, 2011, 03:28:13 PM » |
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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
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2011, 06:14:15 PM » |
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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!
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DMorgan
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2011, 11:11:07 PM » |
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Was using skype to call UK landlines from vegas and it was 0.54p/minute
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outragous76
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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2011, 11:25:02 PM » |
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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? |
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2011, 08:38:48 AM » |
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Not sure what Dan was doing to get charged that much?
Main issue with Skype is that its shit.
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2011, 08:47:10 AM » |
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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, 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. |
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2011, 09:36:26 AM » |
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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,
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2011, 10:31:46 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2011, 10:58:12 AM » |
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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! |
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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2011, 02:48:22 PM » |
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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
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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2011, 02:53:30 PM » |
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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? |
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« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2011, 03:01:18 PM » |
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They're probably the only people I know that are best contacted by landline  |
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« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2011, 03:25:28 PM » |
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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 |
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