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Using Skype on an I pad
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bjbyorkshire
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I've downloaded Skype app onto my I pad so that my son can call me from his girlfriends free Skype account. I have a user name and password set up but I'm not sure that I have done enough. I am sitting here in anticipation but no call has come through as yet.
Also. Will the call be free to both of us? Reading the online stuffe it seems to be talking about needing a special phone number to use with Skype?
Any one have any answers to these
questions please?
Many thanks
Also. Will the call be free to both of us? Reading the online stuffe it seems to be talking about needing a special phone number to use with Skype?
Any one have any answers to these
questions please?
Many thanks
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You seem to have done what's needed. The next thing is making you a contact (and vice versa) with your son's girlfriend. Send her an email or text with your Skype name, she can add it to her contacts, you then accept that, and that's about it.
You will pay no charges on skype to skype calls via wifi. Neither will your son/his girlfriend.
If you have an iPad with 3G / 4G, it all depends on your usage allowance with your mobile network provider. If you don't have one, don't have a sim card in your iPad, then, this doesn't apply.
You don't need a phone number to use Skype. That's an extra which can be useful. I don't live in the UK now, but have a UK Skype tel no. Means that my family can call me freely or at little cost, depending on their telephone set ups within the UK. I pay for this service, as it's good for me abroad, but not if I had a landline in the UK.0 -
Device to device calls are free as long as you have a free connection, its only chargeable if you call a "real" phone or use a real phone to call into the Skype network or if you have to pay for data0
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Skype to skype calls a free for both parties and don't need a phone number. Skype only charges you if you want to call phone numbers, but unless you set up an account for calls to landlines it won't work and you won't get charged.
You still need to tell you son or his girl friend your skype name, so they can contact you. You will also need speakers and a microphone on your computer.0 -
Thanks to you all. Well, I haven't been contacted as yet tonight but that is very typical of my son.... Lol. I will send an e mail to give them my user name and suggest a time for them to call me as I can't stay beside my I pad all day just in case and there are several cold WI fi spots in my house so I may miss the call anyway.
Will let you know if It works out tomorrow.
Hello Anne Marie, it's me again wanting techie advice. Hope you are well.
Bjbyorkshire.0 -
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Well, we had several e mails back and forward but no actual Skype call as yet. Im not really bothered about seeing each other at the same time as talking because you look lopsided when looking into the camera, I seem yo have loads of double chins and an extremely shiny face and the delay on the line is a pain too? Not very pretty on FaceTime anyway. I'm closing down now so see what tomorrow brings.
Thanks again for your input.0 -
Why don't you try and call her Skype account? (I assume they've given you her Skype account name?).
You can even "text" through Skype, so maybe try that first so you know you have a connection, and then proceed to trying a call?0 -
There are others things you might like to try which are similar.
Google Hangouts, Viber, Facebook messenger.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
If you have her Skype user name and have added into your Skype contacts you can then see if she is online. You could then just call.
We use Skype often
iPad to iPad
iPad to iPhone
iPad to Samsung Galaxy note2
iPad to laptop
And of course the other way roundThere will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.0
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