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baedaebok
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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 Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:10 am Post subject: Alternatives to Skype to call US landlines from PC in Korea |
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Skype won't work for me to call US landlines from Korea.
What alternatives to Skype exist that work in Korea? I tried to set-up Google Hangout/Talk and there's no "Call to phone" feature. They say it may because the Korea Telecom company doesn't allow it yet.
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Jake_Kim
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Does that mean you've precluded VoIP service from your mobile, such as 1544-0044? |
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baedaebok
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 5:02 am Post subject: VOIP on mobile |
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I haven't tried VOIP on mobile. How much is the per minute to different countries? Is the connection good?
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Jake_Kim
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 5:50 am Post subject: |
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You pay whatever rate you would've paid for a landline within Korea. VoIP provider doesn't charge you separately, they make profit off of the difference between their operating cost and the rate they charge to Korean mobile companies as a landline. Hence the service is limited to a handful of countries.
If your mobile has unlimited voice call, then it costs you nothing. If you're on a prepaid scheme, then you pay your prepaid voice call rate.
You call in the number, there will be an automated response which says in Korean 'Dial the country code followed by the number you wish to call, then press #.' You don't use international prefix such as 001 with this, but you still drop any 0 in front of city/regional code.
I always use this service when I need to call America or Europe. Like one-in-eight chance, sometimes you might find the call quality is somewhat 'off', no matter how you define it. Hang up and try again, then quality goes back to normal. |
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wes1989
Joined: 07 Jun 2012
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Alternatives to Skype to call US landlines from PC in Ko |
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| baedaebok wrote: |
Skype won't work for me to call US landlines from Korea.
What alternatives to Skype exist that work in Korea? I tried to set-up Google Hangout/Talk and there's no "Call to phone" feature. They say it may because the Korea Telecom company doesn't allow it yet.
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If you have a smartphone download fongo. I know it works on iphone dunno about android. It will give you a phone number and allow you to call to america/canada. You can't call to any korean numbers though. If you have gmail you can use google call and you can call a landline. I used to use it for free in Canada to anywhere in North America for free but not sure if you have to pay if your outside the country. http://www.google.com/chat/voice/#utm_campaign=en_US&utm_medium=homepage&utm_source=en_US-gizmo5 |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Why doesn't Skype work for you? It works great for me. |
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spilot101
Joined: 05 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Fongo can not be installed on my device (Galaxy S4) in Korea (at least that's what the app is telling me).
Gmail's phone has been excellent to me (2c/minute to call the US) |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| OTO is a free app that allows free calls as well. That's what I use. |
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