How can you make cheap or free international calls (not on FaceTime watsapp etc) now there is no Skype.
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Zoom gives you 45 mins on a free account. You can then hang up and restart a minute later.
I think he wants a service where you can call an actual phone number. I need that too for international calls from time to time
Yes that’s right
https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0061379&cms_guid=false&lang=null
Seems you can ring a phone over zoom
Thanks I’ll try that
Looks to be a fairly pricey subscription service. I probably needed to make 10 calls a year to a phone number with Skype and no subscription was necessary just a few dollars credit so that is not good for my purposes.
Going to give Yolla a go
Thanks for the warning we Zoom with the family once a week so use Zoom as there’s often four different log-ins, but we Skype with one friend in Vienna every week. I see the Skype shut off is in May so we’ll have to sort out what we are going to do before May.
Most of my international calls these days are all via WhatsApp. It still amazes me that something that used to be horrendously expensive is now totally free.
On the few occasions I have to call a real phone number and cant do on WhatsApp, we have a v019 service here in Singapore that uses Voice over IP (VoIP) for the calls instead of the normal lines and is a fraction of the cost. I assume there is an equivalent from the phone companies in the UK.
WhatsApp sound quality isn’t great, I find, but free is good.
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product
Thank you.
I find WhatsApp perfectly fine for calls all over the world. Sure, the sound quality is not exactly lossless and it drops out every so often but, hey, it’s free.
You can buy those calling cards which give you a number of minutes. We used one from France in the 90s. Looks like it’s an app now. Here’s an example though read the T&C’s.
https://www.tescointernationalcalling.com/
Yes I used those when I lived in Switzerland. Was thinking about them the other day, looks like I need to go back to them 😕
Thanks I’ll try that thanks that looks better as I have a Tesco phone
When your contract runs out – you could move to a Lebara sim only card. At the moment that gives you unlimited uk minutes – but 500 international minutes for £15 a month
Thanks
Doesn’t Teams have the functionality that you will lose when MS shuts it’s Skype servers?
Yes, and the sound quality of Teams is much better than Skype.