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rossp
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 Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:03 pm Post subject: any regular skype users? |
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thinking about ditching the $70 a month (I know - WTF?) home phone that barely gets used and moving to skype instead. Any thoughts? Not sure if I'd prefer a wifi phone or happy with one wired through the PC. We have plenty of minutes on the cellphones for US calls and skype is I think $9 a month worldwide to landlines.....
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gumby
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it has a lot of static and sometimes echo when we use it to australia.
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trener1
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| I use it to call my sister in Australia, seems pretty good for that, but I am not sure that I would make that my everyday phone. |
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6thElement
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Use the PC software all the time to the UK.
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rossp
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| trener1 wrote: | | I use it to call my sister in Australia, seems pretty good for that, but I am not sure that I would make that my everyday phone. |
Simon - are they using tin cans and string on the other end? That may be the issue....
Everyday phone is my question: we use the home phone so rarely that I am not sure if it's even worth keeping without skype. More like an everyweek phone right now.....
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afterthisnap
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If you used your cell's as primary numbers would you reach $70 per month in overages?
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rossp
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| afterthisnap wrote: | | If you used your cell's as primary numbers would you reach $70 per month in overages? |
Prob not - but it's calling the UK that would bump that up from the cell.
Latest update is that I got a better deal on my existing home phone/net service from Verizon - a faster web service and phone for 12 months for less than it would have been if I'd canceled the phone..... So that + $5 a month for Skype is still a good bit less than I was paying before.
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Huck Banzai
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| Get a crappy 5$ fone card for the international calls and just keep the cells. Alternatively, I think VOIP service through cable would cost you ~40 a month, and another 20 for unlimited international, so you definitely need some kind of change! |
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