Skype is a program that allows you to establish phone voice communication between two computers. So If you want to talk to your friend in England and he has Skype software loaded on his computer, you can talk to him without paying any long distance charges. The latest offering from Skype is that you can call any landline phone in the US or Canada for FREE from your computer until the end of 2006. This feature is already available in your skype software if you have already downloaded it. If you have not used skype yet, I suggest you give it a try. Visit www.skype.com
First Time Users
When I tried this feature the first time, it kept telling me that I need to buy SkypeOut credit to make a call. This is not really true, all they want you to do is agree to their SkypeOut end user agreement. To get past this issue, all you have to do is the following:
1) Under Help menu select Buy Skype Credit (Don't worry you won't buy anything)
2) Log into your account on the Skype website
3) Under My Services - SkypeOut select the Buy Skype Credit link
4) Select to buy the 10 Euro credit (you're not really buying it)
5) On the next page select the currency that suits you best when on the skype website and select to go to next step
6) On this step, read through the Terms of the SkypeOut service, click on agree if you agree to the terms.
7) Once you accept the service agreemnt, skype will send you an email with a confirmation number. Just click on the confirmation link in the email to activate SkypeOut service.
That's it you're done, now you're able to make calls from Skype to landlines and cell phones anywhere in US and Canada for FREE until the end of 2006. To make your first call:
1) select the Dial tab in Skype
2) enter your telephone number you're calling starting with +1
3) I still have not figured out how to get the + sign working from the skype dial, so I just type it in myself into the telephone number input box at the bottom of the skype window.
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