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SKYPE! Completely free phone calls

alabama_2
alabama_2 Posts: 43 Forumite
in Student MoneySaving
Hiya,

Not sure if many people know about skype, but its a way to call people for free via your computers.

If you have broadband at home you can make a free call to anyone else with broadband and a skype username! You don't have to pay a penny, the only thing you have to buy is a headset so you can hear and talk.

This is also great if you have relatives abroad, I speak to my Auntie in Spain all the time with it and the quality is fantastic!

All you do is download the programme at https://www.skype.com

I am going to be starting a MSc in a few weeks and will definitely be using it to keep in tough rather than my mobile!!
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  • MercilessKiller
    MercilessKiller Posts: 7,143 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Erm, alabama.. good to see your reading other posts of the exact same nature *sigh*

    Just to go one further, using voipbuster.com u can call landlines anywhere in the world from ur pc for free.... (need to uploade 1 euro to prove urself but thats it)....

    Ah well
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate    [/FONT]
  • angel290385
    angel290385 Posts: 38 Forumite
    Ive been using skype for months and it has saved me loadsa money...since uni halls charge so much for phone calls!
  • paul_h
    paul_h Posts: 1,074 Forumite
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    As MK says, download Voipbuster and you can call landlines for free too.
  • alabama_2
    alabama_2 Posts: 43 Forumite
    sigh, so patronising.....

    I did read the other thread, but wanted to draw attention to skype as you dont have to pay anything at all.
  • MercilessKiller
    MercilessKiller Posts: 7,143 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    omg alabama..

    i'm afraid you are wrong on this one..

    Skype is ONLY free to call other pc's! My post was about calling peoples REAL PHONES for free... hmmm, which is better??? I think most people know about skype these days ;)

    But not sipgate or voip buster.

    Im sure u had good intentions :D (L)
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate    [/FONT]
  • teamvillage
    teamvillage Posts: 8 Forumite
    Students BEWARE! Some Universities do not permit the use of Skype on their networks. Oxford, for one, explicitly bans Skype on the university network.
  • Mr_Skint_2
    Mr_Skint_2 Posts: 5,183 Forumite
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=84018

    All going on here.
  • hr4033
    hr4033 Posts: 6 Forumite
    teamvillage wrote:
    Students BEWARE! Some Universities do not permit the use of Skype on their networks. Oxford, for one, explicitly bans Skype on the university network.
    Why not? Oxford sounds rubbish! They don't even let you home during the first term apparently! They're so far up their own bums!
  • MercilessKiller
    MercilessKiller Posts: 7,143 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    teamvillage wrote:
    Students BEWARE! Some Universities do not permit the use of Skype on their networks. Oxford, for one, explicitly bans Skype on the university network.

    Skype is useless!!!!!

    Voipbuster = free calls to landlines
    Sipgate.com = Free phone number for your pc.

    What more do you need?

    See the link mr skint put on for details.

    As for you fordy: Don't advertise your cheap skype phones on this board!!!! For a start, who needs a skype phone when a headset will do a fantastic job, and secondly, anyone can get a skype phone off ebay anyway. Wrong board.
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate    [/FONT]
  • teamvillage
    teamvillage Posts: 8 Forumite
    hr4033 wrote:
    Why not? Oxford sounds rubbish! They don't even let you home during the first term apparently! They're so far up their own bums!

    Skype channels huge amounts of bandwidth on powerful networks, effectively using them as Skype servers.

    And with an Oxford workload and 8 week terms, there really is no time to go home! Most colleges don't ban it, just very few people make the time to go home.
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