I purchased a skype number so that while I’m overseas, people won’t need to pay out the nose to get in touch with me. It’s even based in the chicago area. Heh. Cool.
Any other skype users out there?
For those not in the know, skype is a phone-over-internet (voice over ip, or VOIP) service, so that one can call people anywhere for reasonable rates. For instance. Calling the UK on my cell is like $1+/minute. Calling the UK on skype, to a land line, is $.021/minute. Ditto for Scott in Germany. Now, cells can be more expensive to reach, as I found out the hard way. Dialing Ro’s cell # cost $.76 cents for 3 minutes. Still better than calling from my cell.
And if anyone I were calling used skype, it would be free.
You prepay, so it’s like a calling card that way. You can also buy numbers (for $12 for 3 months or $38 for a year) that forward to your client, or to a voicemail service, which you can, of course, access from anywhere online.
Oh, and they’re having a promo where it’s free to call the US and Canada until the end of the year. Sweet.
send me an email if you want the geeky new #. 😉
I don’t use skype, but I do use wengo, the free, open source version. 🙂 In theory, there will be compatibility sometime in the future.
Interesting. I had no idea.
Sadly, Wengo is not yet available for mac, my sole platform for the next couple months. =)
Very, very unlikely, as Skype is not standards-compliant in any way whatsoever. Unfortunately.
I love Skype! 😀