skype

[zara_backdog]

Love it

Use it to chat with my cousin who lives in Maderia - sometimes just use the message facility. Had a 3-way conversation with her sster in Austrialia at Xmas and we were chatting fo about 30 mins.

Can use it fo call ' Non-skype numbers but you need to top-up your credit account to do that.

[d000hg]

I have just started to use it, mainly instant messaging.

I put in my home phone number and it started to ring, dunno who was going to pay for the call.

I imagine either it was free as a local call, or more likely, you get some free credit when you register which would have been used.

[NickFitz]

FWIW, when I was at Y!'s London office we used Skype both for the daily conference call for our stand-up meetings and for any other meetings, given that a number of the team were in the Grenoble office.

I also seem to recollect a company-wide (as in, all of Yahoo! worldwide) email exhorting people to use it in preference to IDD (International Direct Dialling) as a way of keeping business costs down.

Something worth noting if you have clients abroad, or have to contact clients' foreign offices from your own home/office.

[Cyberman]

I've used Skype for almost five years to call friends in Germany and Brazil without major problems. It's totally free, but it did take a while to convince people that that was the case. Its reliability has also improved dramatically since I first started using it.

[Pondlife]

I use it daily to call home when working away (in Euroland)

I have SkypeOut credit which allows me to dial UK numbers from anywhere with internet access for €0.02/min.

Call quality is generally ok these days.

[PhilAtBFCA]

skype

I have used it for several years, 4 I think, its got better over the years for sure.
Free Skype to Skype video calls are great for keeping in contact with family.
I use Skype between our offices ( in different locations ) to talk to colleagues, but I dont use it for outgoing calls from the office.
I have used a Skype-In number and a divert from Skype to a mobile, this all worked fine too.

Phil

[voodooflux]

You can get some very decent combined Skype/DECT phones (that don't require your PC to be on) these days as well: I have the Philips VOIP841 and it's a very good piece of kit. Even more so as I got it free

[Churchill]

I can run Skype on my Nokia E71...

[norrahe]

you've got me convinced, so will get me other half who's the tecchy to sort it out.

Will come in handy if i end up in Euroland