Friday, July 31, 2009

Skype

We use Skype as our main means of communicating with our team members, suppliers and customers. This is mainly because all these people already use the service; it is not because it is the best voice or video application. Last year the service went down for three days so you should have a backup plan. If you don’t have to use Skype consider one of the options below.

Skype calls between computers are free. Calls from a computer to a normal phone or mobile are charged at low rates, for which you have to buy credits. This service is called SkypeOut. You can also buy a Skype phone number (30 Euros/yr) which allows people to call you on your computer. This can be useful as it means you can take phone calls on any computer anywhere in the world. This service is called SkypeIn.

Biggest user base by a long way

Owned by eBay so will continually be improved

Very easy to use

Uses a lot of YOUR computer processing power even when you are not making calls

Call quality poor at busy times

Has had reliability problems

Skype@ Skype.com

2 comments:

  1. they saying they can't continue free call service

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  2. The Residence Inn in New Haven Conneticutt has become one of the first hotels to offer Free VOIP service to their customers. Adam Dubroff of TravelGlue, the company that wired the Residence Inn for VoIP, told CNN.

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