Even if your cell plan allows free domestic roaming, you’re probably paying through the nose when you’re phoning home from foreign destinations. And let’s face it: E-mail isn’t quite the same — especially if you’re keeping pace with a student spending a semester abroad.
A free alternative: install Skype on your portable computer.
Here’s what you need to have and do:
• Laptop: Take yours along.
• Download the free program from www.skype.com. This software, which began in Europe but was recently acquired by eBay, claims a staggering 170 million users and allows you to use a computer’s microphone and speakers to chat, as if by telephone, with anyone else who has Skype running on their own computer — for free. You can also use Skype to talk to regular non-Skype phone numbers for about 2.1 cents a minute; that’s accomplished by loading your Skype account with a few dollars via the Skype website. Your account is debited each time you call a regular phone, but again, if you use Skype to call other Skype users, calls are free.
Overseas calls on the cheap - 05/20/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
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