Anyone heard of SKYPE?

BLACKHURSTM

PAM 17 If there is a delay in her getting her internet connection but she has a Phone line use voipbuster or similar.China is 1p per minute at the momment.That way if you need to contact her UNI or friends or place of work you are not reliant on them having a pc or indeed pc switched on.
Have a look @
http://www.voipbuster.com/en/index.html
With voipbuster you phone from your pc to any landline,the receiver of the call does not need a pc.
many calls are free inc France,Spain USA plus loads more. and the non free calls are also very competative than all other methods/providors.

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lee634

BLACKHURSTM wrote:

PAM 17 If there is a delay in her getting her internet connection but she has a Phone line use voipbuster or similar.China is 1p per minute at the momment.That way if you need to contact her UNI or friends or place of work you are not reliant on them having a pc or indeed pc switched on.
Have a look @
http://www.voipbuster.com/en/index.html
With voipbuster you phone from your pc to any landline,the receiver of the call does not need a pc.
many calls are free inc France,Spain USA plus loads more. and the non free calls are also very competative than all other methods/providors.




100% Free*, no call setup! Click here for more info. For all other rates, click here

voipbuster voipcheap they are allthe same as skype
pc - pc or pc to landline with credit

BLACKHURSTM

lee634 ,The question being asked was for free calls to China.I posted about the voipbuster because they are cheaper than Skype when it comes to phoning a landline in China.
voipbuster 1p per minute and skype 2p per minute.
Thats why I always choice voipbuster.I phone China Daily and over 10 counties weeekly and found them to be the cheapest.

regulator_2

I talk to family in India and all seems ok. Sometimes clarity can be lacking but I suppose its down to the amount of users on skype at the time. I am going to be testing BT's Softphone today to see if thats better.

You can also talk over MSN Messenger. Its not quite a call but you can push the Audio button and then talk. I believe Microsoft's Netmeeting is more like a call, not sure what clarity was like as I used it ages ago.

CopperPlate_2

Have had it for a while now and use it for long distance talk to Australia. Decent enough quality, but it's free, so can put up with the odd bit of "crackle"!

BexTech

lee634 wrote:

voipbuster voipcheap they are allthe same as skype
pc - pc or pc to landline with credit

Yes, but Skype Hype is one of the dearer (along with Tesco) VoIP providers.

I use sister service https://www.voipstunt.com they give you free calls to China landlines, so no need to worry about the other person being on broadband or the fact China is trying to block VoIP traffic.

When I joined VoIPStunt (and the .com of VoIPCheap, VoipBuster and SIPDiscount) they issued VoIP-In numbers (I have 0121 numbers) for free, though they have recently stopped those, but you can set out going CLID to anything you wish.

I also have Sipgate which is cheaper than Skype Hype allows you to call not only Sipgate users for free, you can peer with other SIP providers, you get an incoming/outgoing number for free (Skype charge £20+VAT/year for) any area codeyou wish, call out rates are cheaper then Skype Hype, free Voice-mail and not a proprietary system, nor a P2P system.

neil40

We call Bulgaria all the time.Most of the time it is great quality but can get poorer during peak times(6-10pm).Would definately recommend it as you are never thinking "how much is this call going to cost me?"..........Neil

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hilary1

Cant find any info on it but what about the extras you can buy like dvd downloads.

littleange

BexTech wrote:

Yes, but Skype Hype is one of the dearer (along with Tesco) VoIP providers.

I use sister service https://www.voipstunt.com they give you free calls to China landlines, so no need to worry about the other person being on broadband or the fact China is trying to block VoIP traffic.

When I joined VoIPStunt (and the .com of VoIPCheap, VoipBuster and SIPDiscount) they issued VoIP-In numbers (I have 0121 numbers) for free, though they have recently stopped those, but you can set out going CLID to anything you wish.

I also have Sipgate which is cheaper than Skype Hype allows you to call not only Sipgate users for free, you can peer with other SIP providers, you get an incoming/outgoing number for free (Skype charge £20+VAT/year for) any area codeyou wish, call out rates are cheaper then Skype Hype, free Voice-mail and not a proprietary system, nor a P2P system.

I agree with BexTech, and I probably have a similar set up, I've only recently started using VOIP but picked VOIPdiscount instead of VOIPstunt, but they are very similar. I didn't get issued with a number from them so I got a free Leeds number from Sipgate for incoming calls. I then use skype to talk to people when we are both online, as the quality pc to pc is good, and use msn for text chat.