Comments on: Call Your Mother! VOIP http://maastrichtminutiae.com/2010/03/05/call-your-mother-voip/ Spotlights on the adventure and realities of expat life in Maastricht. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Hampton http://maastrichtminutiae.com/2010/03/05/call-your-mother-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Dave Hampton Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:58:25 +0000 http://maastrichtminutiae.com/?p=2776#comment-327 Skype has been great, both personally to keep in touch with friends globally and with keeping costs down for the business. Since I registered for Skype while in the US, my Skype services are considered to be US-based: when I use the pay-for-minutes feature to call a landline or mobile, I get US rates (great for the US, bad for phoning England). There is also a dial-in service where you can make VOIP calls from non-VOIP phones. Unfortunately there isn't a Dutch access number, but there is a UK one. I did get a Google Voice invitation through a friend, but you can't subscribe unless you are in the US. I'm hoping they go international some time soon (just as I wait, and wait, ffor the international availability of US TV network feeds over the Internet) Skype has been great, both personally to keep in touch with friends globally and with keeping costs down for the business.

Since I registered for Skype while in the US, my Skype services are considered to be US-based: when I use the pay-for-minutes feature to call a landline or mobile, I get US rates (great for the US, bad for phoning England). There is also a dial-in service where you can make VOIP calls from non-VOIP phones. Unfortunately there isn’t a Dutch access number, but there is a UK one.

I did get a Google Voice invitation through a friend, but you can’t subscribe unless you are in the US. I’m hoping they go international some time soon (just as I wait, and wait, ffor the international availability of US TV network feeds over the Internet)

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