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Uncle Turk
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
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 Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: Using Skype in Korea |
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| Hello everyone. I have been doing my research in the hopes of moving to SK in the near future. I tried finding info on using Skype to cut costs of staying in contact with people back home. Anyone use Skype out here? Anything special you need to do? I am assuming Skype to Skype is free, but what about Skype to landlines in the US? Any help will be greatly appreciated. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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skype to skype is free
skype to land line means going to the skype website and paying a monthly or yearly fee for specific countries. It's incredibly cheap and if you have a smart phone you can call landlines via your cell phone (your cell phone calls skype, skype calls the land line). You will have to contact skype headquarters for this. |
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ciccone_youth
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Using Skype to call a landline overseas is super cheap! When I got back to Canada I'd Skype my um, boyfriend back in Seoul, and we'd talk for hours and it barely cost anything. A Skype relationship cannot last, though  |
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sugarloaf82
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I use Skype to make all my calls back home to the States, as well as to friends abroad in other countries. It costs 2-3 cents a minute to the US. Once a month or so I usually just add $10 credit to my account and that lasts for close to a month- but I don't call home a lot. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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skype was totally free back in 2003 and i used it often
when they started asking for money in '04 i stopped using it |
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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| You can buy a # for around $30 bucks a year so people can call you. My wife and I bough a US # so people at home can call us and a Korean # so people in Korea can call us. Also, we bought a world plan so we can call people in Korea and back home. The world plan allows youto cal US land lines and cells but only land lines in Korea. Cells require skype credit.I think we spent around $120 for a year. We like it but we keep gettin asked about buying a cell phone. |
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travelingfool
Joined: 10 Mar 2008
Location: Parents' basement
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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You can also have people call your local number in the states and have it forwarded to your cell phone in Korea for about 7 cents a minute.
Does anyone know of any alternatives to Skype? |
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benji1422
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Location: Los Angeles & Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| travelingfool wrote: |
You can also have people call your local number in the states and have it forwarded to your cell phone in Korea for about 7 cents a minute.
Does anyone know of any alternatives to Skype? |
Yeah I did the whole forwarding thing. People called my phone number in the US it forwarded to skype which forwarded to whatever korean cell phone I had. It worked pretty well. There is no other service that I know of that's reliable that does that. Vonage acts more like a "real phone" because you don't have to have your computer on, but my friends who used it for business canceled it because is not reliable and drops off the server a lot. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
| You can buy a # for around $30 bucks a year so people can call you. My wife and I bough a US # so people at home can call us and a Korean # so people in Korea can call us. Also, we bought a world plan so we can call people in Korea and back home. The world plan allows youto cal US land lines and cells but only land lines in Korea. Cells require skype credit.I think we spent around $120 for a year. We like it but we keep gettin asked about buying a cell phone. |
Getting the number is the best route. I do a little trick with the family back home where I call and let it ring 3 times and then hangup. They then call me back and it's a free call. Rates are not that bad though even if you are the one calling.
Mine cost $30 too, but I think the rates went up significantly since that time, however. |
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brainfreeze
Joined: 04 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| travelingfool wrote: |
You can also have people call your local number in the states and have it forwarded to your cell phone in Korea for about 7 cents a minute.
Does anyone know of any alternatives to Skype? |
Yeah plenty. If you're interested in US/Canada calls only then Magicjack is the way to go.
If you're a hard core voiper check out dslreports.com they have plenty of suggestions for PAYG type voip stuff.
You can get free voip providers as well, as long as you don't care what US area code.
I personally have google voice/grandcentral which I can use to receive/make calls and receive/send text messages to any where in the world. |
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