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« Tipping point reaches tipping point || Back to Blog | Aristotle and conversation: Maybe I wasn't completely wrong » June 13, 2005
You know what works? Skype Out. You plug a microphone and headset into your laptop (or use the built-in ones), plug your laptop into a broadband connection, pay Skype 10 euros for about 10 hours of talk time, and you can call anywhere in the world. Plain old Skype lets you call any other Skype user for free, computer to computer, but Skype Out lets you call from your computer to other people's phones. The connections have been a bit echo-y, and calls to mobile phones are way more expensive -- 4.14 minutes to the US from London cost me .085 euros while 2:06 minutes to a London cellphone cost .615 euros -- but it works. Or, you could bring your VOIP modem with you and plug a telephone into it, but not if your family needs the modem at home. Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 13, 2005 05:22 AM
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Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2005 03:06 PM
i want skype
Posted by: luko | June 23, 2005 07:29 PM
skype out
Posted by: liubo | August 12, 2005 10:04 AM
I want Skype because I heard it is very good but when is it going to be aveabile to download it for free?
Posted by: Dinea Alex | August 28, 2005 08:00 PM
?? It's been available for free from the beginning. Still is.
Posted by: David Weinberger | August 29, 2005 08:48 AM
Correction: Calls to UK mobiles are way more expensive. If you were to call a US or Canadian cellphone, it'd cost you the same as the landline call. Somehow, the European telecom system has got everyone paying through the nose, and most of us bozos just accept it. Death to the telcos! Long live Skype!
Posted by: J.P. Bigglesworth Jr, Esq. | September 16, 2005 04:16 PM
I find Skype out too "echoy" from overseas. not sure if it's bandwith problem or Skype
Posted by: polycom | June 16, 2006 02:01 AM