[NBLUG/talk] Anyone use Skype?

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Fri Aug 11 15:11:18 PDT 2006


> Two neat things about voip commercial services:
> 1) You can buy a plan that lets you talk unlimited within their system for
> $7.95
> 2) You can send the box and a US telephone to Japan and she can plug it in
> to
> any broadband.
> Give it a local number, and all of her friends can call her by dialing her
> 707
> number; it'll ring anywhere in the world it's plugged in.
>
> Disclaimer: I don't sell these services or own stock in them.
> Just a satisfied customer.
>

To me this would sound like an excellent utility for a traveler. You could
take your phone with you wherever you went and so long as you could plug
it into a brodband connection, you'd have your local phone.




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