Oh yes, and to clarify on your first question with an example, my cousin in canada has a london skypein number, and when we call her, we pay for a local call to london. Thats always the case wether my cousin picks up on her computer, or on her phone or whatever device she decides to use. Obviously she pays the data costs or whatever is incurred depending on the medium she uses to answer the call, but all we end up paying is the local uk landline call. In short it does work exactly as you said.
As Alastair said, looking into a real VOIP provider will give you far more flexibility with what you do with your number and also would probably work out cheaper than skype if you use it a lot. Also if you wanted to use a real handset to make your calls then I would absolutely recommend that route as although its a bit more technical the telephones are overall much more reliable than skype ones. Skype is really easy to use, and costs are similar to having a pay as you go mobile, but international :-) On 6 January 2011 18:42, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > Skype completely uses your data, and works over 3G. (quite well on iPhone, > no hacks needed any more etc). Some providers such as t-mobile really take > offence to using other telephony services on their network, and some such as > three positively encourage it, and even dont charge you for data used on > skype. > > I'm pretty much doing what you are thinking of, I do have a landline > because I have broadband, but I don't know the number and it's only used > when relatives abroad call us who don't understand computers. I have a skype > in number which I use as my landline and make and receive calls from my > mobile in either way. It's really cheap as I'm no a heavy caller and I wish > there was a way to just ditch the BT line as I would give up a regular phone > service in a heartbeat. > > Toby > > Sent from a tiny predictive keyboard > > On 6 Jan 2011, at 15:57, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm wondering whether to get a Skype number and can't find a clear answer > to this -- does anyone know? > > > > People who ring me on skype, but I answer on my iPhone via Skype, are > ringing my mobile but presumably they are paying only the landline number. > In effect I can ditch the landline, assuming I have 3g or wireless working > at home? I only keep the landline for a few family who don't have endless > mobile minutes to burn. > > > > and I can ring from the skype number too (as long as on 3G/wifi)...so I > don't need a lot of minutes (just for the times that I'm on 3g or wifi, in > fact...) so can ditch the 'free numbers' for the most part...? > > > > is anyone actually doing this? Have I missed anything? does it work ok? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
