Hello All,
On one of the other internet forums there was some information shared on a free internet phone technology. This may be very useful, especially for international calls, like when we want to call our forum friends in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and the UK.
The post referenced the website http://www.skype.com. It is a free voice-over chat program. The information in the post indicated that it is not really a phone service, but the conversation they had in real time was just as clear.
It appears that the free option is for Skype to Skype computers. In other words, if I wanted to talk to Rodney in South Africa, we would both need to have the Skype software loaded on our computers.
The person posting this information shared that the service was more like Instant Messenger with voice instead of text. They said it was full duplex, meaning you can listen and talk at the same time, not having to wait for the other person to stop talking. You can cut them off mid-sentence.
You can talk to someone on a regular land-line phone, but there are charges. It looks like the cost of a phone call from Skype to a regular phone anywhere in the world is $.02 per minute.
Another poster in the thread said he had been using this system for a couple of weeks to talk to friends in the Far East from his UK location. He indicated that the system was a pre-pay format when you were calling land-line phones, similar to the pay-as-you-go mobile phones.
Additionally, this same person commented that you can hold conference calls. This comes in handy when you and your attorney need to both speak to that special deadbeat customer.
The original thread I read on this subject is at http://www.dyesub.org/forum/?msg=3397.1. |
