skype mobile

JMU-95

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btw interested in your thread as I'm in the opposite situation live in northern Ireland but have 3 sisters living down south (in dublin area) so is quite costly to ring them.

shaun40400

jmu 95

welcome to the rip off republic
would imagine your shops will have a boom at xmas
everything has gone mad down here god forbid its almcst back to the dark times of the late 80,s
as was mentioned earlier if you have a good broad band like eircom,ntl eth
then the best way is to use Skype to Skype which is free.
or if you have the computer and they have phones then buy skype out credit and phone them(at bottom of skype contacts) using skype from your computer for 0.012 pence per min.(but you need normal broadband)
i use clearwire and that wont support skypeout hence my problem.
so need to get skype phone for parents and then i can contact them for 0.00

imagia

shaun40400 wrote: »

i use clearwire and that wont support skypeout hence my problem.
so need to get skype phone for parents and then i can contact them for 0.00

I can't think why skypeout wouldn't be supported since the ISP will be carrying exactly the same data as a normal skype-to-skype call. But anyway.

Have you considered the following option?

Create another skype account. Set up call-forwarding on that account to your parents' phone number. Then simply call that other skype username from your account. It will cost you only skypeout credits, but you won't be using skypeout with your ISP, and the calls will just forward on to your parents' line.

shaun40400

i think the reason they give is something to do with the band widths and is also effected by the fact that they have a blanket block on to torrent sites, was supposed to be sorted out by spring 07 but never happened.
skype out ...its the actual calling of landlines that they don't carry if i was with a normal company like bt. i wouldent have this problem but im 1 mile away and they wont suppley for 1 customer
as to your idea imagia for ten euros it worth a try.

imagia

shaun40400 wrote: »

i think the reason they give is something to do with the band widths and is also effected by the fact that they have a blanket block on to torrent sites, was supposed to be sorted out by spring 07 but never happened.
skype out ...its the actual calling of landlines that they don't carry if i was with a normal company like bt. i wouldent have this problem but im 1 mile away and they wont suppley for 1 customer
as to your idea imagia for ten euros it worth a try.

If you can do normal skype to skype calls then my solution should work a treat. Let us know how you get on!

billsavings

If you have a plain old telephone in Eire and the recieving party has the same www.13434.ie is worth a look at, its a sister company of www.18185.co.uk which MSE recommends a lot.

shaun40400

just a quickie
ive set up an account for mum now
i have to buy credit for her account so she can recive the calls (call forward uses skype credit)
i dont need credit on my account as im doing ordinary skype call??

jhp

shaun40400 wrote: »

just a quickie
ive set up an account for mum now
i have to buy credit for her account so she can recive the calls

So you are not strictly getting Free Calls then.:D

imagia

shaun40400 wrote: »

just a quickie
ive set up an account for mum now
i have to buy credit for her account so she can recive the calls (call forward uses skype credit)
i dont need credit on my account as im doing ordinary skype call??

No, you only need credit for the call forwarding part.

shaun40400

ok this is messey or is sat evening????
you need credit for call forwarding so i set that upon her account as she will wont the calls forwarding to her tel,

and jhp read the thread
and you will see what we are trying to do
yes skype give you free calls but not to landlines never have
we are attempting to find a way of reducing my annual phone bill
it was never going to be free