They can call each other for free also.īUT, if she goes out of France, calling on that phone becomes very expensive due to the roaming charges. Any calls received on that phone are free. She has a french cell phone as do her other friends who are studying in Paris. Thanks for the input on the phone calling. Skype number, it then rings my cell phone, if I don't pick up, back to Skype Voice Mail. I will also do this to forward calls from Skype to my European cell phone. If you aren't around, the call goes to voice mail.

With Skype-In, say if you are in the States, people just dial your Skype number as though they were calling you normally. Skype does the country code access for you.Īs to Andrew's suggestion, I have the Skype-In option, simply so that people don't have to go through figuring out how to dial a different country's access code.

Choose the country, then dial in the number. Click on the flag, that brings up all of the countries. When the keypad appears, at the top you will see a flag. The other way is the direct dial method using the CALL NUMBER option. One I'll title something like 'Bob Smith' for the Skype to Skype call, another 'Bob Smith Home' for the phone contact. Now, something I do, say if who I want to contact also has a Skype acct. From then on, the contact is listed on your primary contact page. You click on the desired country, then enter the phone number as though you were just going to dial it. You can set them up as a Contact, and when asked for the details it lists all of the countries (little flag icons next to them). Maybe you could forward your landline calls to Skype as well that way - then 'listen' to your voicemail via Skype from the computer instead of needing to call the answering machine back home and listen to them. So if people call my cell phone while I'm in Europe, it 'rings' on Skype on my netbook if I'm logged in, or calls go to my Skype voicemail (which is free if you get a Skype phone number). Further, you could even do what I do: forward calls from my cell phone to my Skype numbers. So someone in your town could make a 'local' call to your Skype number and it would 'ring' on your computer whether you are in the US or in France - costs the caller the same.

If you have a netbook or laptop: when you use Skype, you can switch to a 'phone keypad' tab that has a phone keypad where you can press numbers to get touchtone sounds as you normally would from a payphone, say, to enter the code to listen to your answering machine messages.įYI, you an also get a Skype phone number in your own area code to receive incoming calls - for only $18 for three months (outgoing calls are separate).

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