Skype Perfect for Overseas Travelers
Even if your cell plan allows free domestic roaming, you’re probably paying through the nose when you’re phoning home from foreign destinations. And let’s face it: E-mail isn’t quite the same — especially if you’re keeping pace with a student spending a semester abroad.
A free alternative: install Skype on your portable computer.
Here’s what you need to have and do:
• Laptop: Take yours along.
• Download the free program from www.skype.com. This software, which began in Europe but was recently acquired by eBay, claims a staggering 170 million users and allows you to use a computer’s microphone and speakers to chat, as if by telephone, with anyone else who has Skype running on their own computer — for free. You can also use Skype to talk to regular non-Skype phone numbers for about 2.1 cents a minute; that’s accomplished by loading your Skype account with a few dollars via the Skype website. Your account is debited each time you call a regular phone, but again, if you use Skype to call other Skype users, calls are free.
Overseas calls on the cheap – 05/20/2007 – MiamiHerald.com
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