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kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200612/200612200032.html

Seems too good to be true, but....

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

poet13 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

I dont understand why people would pay even a little for skype, when yahoo messenger, (chat, voice, video) is free.
Is there something better about skype than that?

pocariboy73 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003

because with Skype you can call a telephone (landline), with Messenger it's only PC to PC.

poet13 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

Ok. Well, I lose a little, a very little in the voice quality talking to home, but in my microscopic apartment, I can spend the day with my family, and I dont have to hold a phone. I do my laundry, wash the dishes, and just talk to my family as if they were in the room. Leave it open all day long, and we take breaks, or soemtimes while I am doing something, she will ask me about some homework problem or we talk about budget or one of the employees, etc. With the vid cam, I can baby sit my son while my wife does her thing. For me, having to hold a phone would be a negative aspect of skype.

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

poet13 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject:

Ah, 'puter to phone.... That's cool, especially the bank part...

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

iiicalypso · Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Location: is everything

Yeah... I love Skype as well. All things being equal, it is money well spent. I wish that everybody else would sign up for it, so i could call Skype-to-Skype, but the rates on Skype for international calls are reasonable.

The best part about it is that for a few bucks a month you can get a Skypein phone number. My mother, bless her, has a lot of skills, but conquering the intricacies of international dialing is not one of them. Nor is she comfortable with a computer. I signed up for Skypein, got a ten digit US number that she could identify with, and all she had to do was pick up her home phone and call.

Now, if I could just teach her about how to calculate time differences...

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

I just got a Skype In number in the same area code as my mother and now all she has to do is call that number and my Skype in Korea rings; she did this the other day and we both spent $0.
Currently it's available in about 20 countries and costs KW 12,000 for 3 months, and KW 36,000 for one year.

Kimchi Cha Cha · Joined: 15 May 2003 Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane

Skype's great and I've been using it for a couple of years now. Finally, my parents, aunt and one of my sisters have installed Skype along with my brother so it's now free when calling them.

A word of warning for Australian posters though. It seems that both Telstra and Optus sabotage the quality of Skype calls when calling (free) from one Skype account to another. My aunt's internet provider is BigPond and I've always in the end resorted to just calling her landline as the quality is so bad through Skype. I had no problem calling my parents with Skype until they recently changed their internet provider to Optus now I have the same problem as with my aunt. We gather it must be because Telstra and Optus being the main telecommunications providers back home don't appreciate people finding cheaper, or god forbid free, phone calls and purposely lessen the quality of these calls. Yet another reason not to sign onto any Telstra or Optus internet package, I still don't why people bother with their outpriced and limited services.