Free PC to Phone calls with Skype for rest of 2006

**Doctor Feelgood**

Free PC to Phone calls within the US and Canada.

http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

Of course I just paid to renew my Skype-In and Skype-Out.

Rolling Eyes

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Cool! Will have to get it set up and try it out.

SAMSAMHA · Rated NC-17 Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 112

it's nice that skype is doing this. I gues that no one really want to pay for it if they can use it for free, I wonder if skype is doing this just to attract customers.

vanilla · Rated PG Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 8

I remember seeing something many months ago, about Ebay buying Skype. I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure Ebay owns them?

But as far as it being free, there is some sort of ulterior motive at work here, and whether I'm right about Ebay owning them or not, that company will be looking to make money eventually. The big question is how they will go about it. They are probably offering it for free now, in order to get people hooked onto the service. Eventually they will either try to charge people OR you will see a lot of advertisements when using the service.

edvallie · Posted: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:58:47 Post Subject:

Wow this is a lot of fun Smile

Anyone know if there is a way to set what you come up as on the other person's caller id? Grin

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:01:22 Post Subject:

No - and that is what stinks to me. Even though I paid for a phone number through Skype's "SkypeIn", just like anyone else that makes an outbound Skype call, you only show up as something like 0001234567.

I think other services like Skype can be 'manipulated' to show different numbers, though.

dwalden · Rated PG-13 Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 35

I tried it last night to call my home number. My home number is set to not accept "private" numbers, so you have to record your name and it announces it to the receiver like a collect call and they decide if they want to accept or not.

Other than that worked nice. I wish I actually made long distance phone calls so it would be useful. Oh well.

Uberdroog · Rated PG Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 13 Location: Hell

I like theat the phone number comes up as 0012345...does anyone know if you purcase a number from skype if it shows on caller ID?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:15:39 Post Subject:

Nope. They won't offer that. By keeping their systems (inbound and outbound) separate they avoid being considered a phone company and don't have to worry about things like 911...

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:40:35 Post Subject: