Skype

I have a few relatives that live a good distance away. One is about 1500 miles and one is 3000. Their children, my nieces, are growing up without me getting to see a lot of them. We have been searching for a way to communicate face to face to make up for   Read full review...

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PC phone system Skype continues its slow march to awareness, if not desktop prominence, as the service turns 5 years old in 2008. Skype is essentially a mini phone system inside your PC. Recent advances have improved the call quality, and the service   Read full review...

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Last month, my 75 year old father had back surgery. The surgery went well, but he had some complications related to the anesthetic. Unfortunately, he's still in the hospital, but doing somewhat better. I feel better knowing that my dad is doing better   Read full review...

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I have used a number of VOIP services and Skype is the worst, NOT RECOMMENDED! Voice quality poor, calls drop, impossible to get a refund.

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Skype is a instant messenger with voice and Video Capabilities This is the line. You can read on other reviews the pro and cons of the Skype approach to the world of instant messagging. PROS OF SKYPE Mac Compatibility I own a   Read full review...

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I’ve been using Skype for few years now and feel that I have to write a tribute to this service. I spent more time talking over the Skype then shopping, probably couple of orders of magnitude more… Let’s start: Who Uses Skype? Most   Read full review...

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Lets flash back to the year 1997, I was about to graduate from high school I had won free airline tickets to Israel from El Air but since it didn’t include cash for food and lodging I was using the Internet to arrange free and low cost housing in the   Read full review...

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DO NOT SEND SKYPE ANY MONEY. STICK WITH THE FREE SERVICE AND GO ANYWHERE (well not Vonage, by the epinions) ELSE! Here I begin the long explanation why. You can just go with the bold statement above, or see the Skype Forums under > Skype   Read full review...

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I felt the need to add this review, as whenever a relative calls using Skype to our landline, the quality is atrocious. You get what you pay for right now, but starting Jan 1, 2007 you will actually have to pay for this atrocious quality.

The voice is constantly getting garbled, cut-off, echo-ey. Sometimes I just cut them off and say I will call them back on their landline because it is too annoying to figure out what they are saying.

If this is where VOIP is at right now, forget about it.

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SKYPE is a great leap forward in communications service. It encompasses voice, chat, video. file transmitting. The cost of using the service is much cheaper than traditional long distance if a regular phone line is involved on either end. If you are   Read full review...

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We have two teenagers at our house, so of course, the phone is constantly in use. We needed a way to get another phone line without the cost. The answer – Skype. Skype allows us to make free calls to anywhere in the United States and Canada (until the   Read full review...

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I’ve used Skype for about a year now. I use it both at home and on the road. This review summarizes my experience, and compares it to some of the alternatives I've tried. At home I use Skype on my desktop PC, sometimes with a headset, but more   Read full review...

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With AIM, Y! Messenger, MSN Messenger and even Google Chat is there a need for another messaging service? Skype seems to think so and redefines online communication by focusing on the spoken word (and now video) -- a traditionally weak area for most   Read full review...

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I think Skype is wonderful. It's free, it works, it's very straightforward. So recently I decided to use it instead of a landline. Getting a phone number and paying for minutes was easy - although I note that other posters have had trouble with this.   Read full review...

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* - Updated: Jan 24, 2006 11:30am * This morning, my "Support Request" was closed by Skype - Customer Support just copy and paste standard answer from a TOTALLY IRRELEVANT ISSUE (see copy of their reply at the bottom of this review). I am sure no   Read full review...

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Don't make the mistake of requiring help with paying them and asking them to help you. They will send you a form letter and totally ignore your polite requests for help. I am trying to pay them after a technical glitch, and after about ten polite requests, they are still sending me packaged form letters and remain totally faceless and unappreciative of a repeat paying customer (me) who just wants to be able to pay. Because of a glitch, I am not able to pay via Paypal or credit card, and they are not doing the least to help me out. In the American system of doing business, you usually do whatever it takes to address the customer's needs. Skype is a fantastic product, which i love using. But their help department is extremely insulting in its dismissal of customer needs. For me, this spoils the luster of their image.

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Skype makes it easy to call around the world. We used it as a backup to Onesuite recently and found the rates to be very competitive when calling phone numbers in other countries through the Internet. Save money by cancelling your long distance phone   Read full review...

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Skype is a free software download that gives you entry to a global internet telephone service. If your computer has Skype, a microphone, and speakers, you can talk for an unlimited time for free to anyone else in the world who has the same setup. If   Read full review...

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I first downloaded skype because someone told me to get it because they didnt want me wasting money calling them on the landline. It looks like an ordinary average IM client at first but it soon becomes clear that it was designed specificially for voice   Read full review...

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After the repeated crashing of AOL and MSN voice, I opted to get a better way to communicate long distances. After a quick google search, Skype was suggested. I have friends in many places, including Australia and Canada, and often the voice gets   Read full review...

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Save Hundreds of Dollars by using Internet Telophony—Skype! By James P. Zaworski I moved to Taiwan in March of 2005 to take a job as an English teacher, and found that it got rather lonely rather quickly here. Going through culture shock,   Read full review...

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We don't have a traditional telephone line in our house, we only use cell phones. A lot of our family and friends are in the same position and use their cell phones exclusively. This works out great except during day hours when we are charged per   Read full review...

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