As geriatric millenial, I’m a paying user. I pay for a monthly subscription that allows me call 1 hour to phones back home per month.
I also pay for an annual subscription for a virtual phone number back home. So, family only calls a local number (a virtual fixed phone) and I get the call in my my phone anywhere around the world (provided I have at least 4G data).
I hope the virtual phone number is just ported to MS Teams and I don’t have to look for an alternative solution.
yeahhhh, ICQ. Oh dear, is this gonna be nostalgic Friday?
The oh-oh was definitely more woke than the sexist whistle of the whats-app
I thought skype was long gone too. Why would someone pay for it (wasn’t the idea not to?) to call a normal landline - and only for 1 hour a month?
The virtual number sounds pretty good though but does your family live that far out in the sticks, not receiving Internet, Axa?
2004 entire Nigeria - no food but a handy - was reachable via mobile phones.
It’s the only way to call free numbers in Mexico (800 numbers), that includes banks, some public offices, airlines, etc. It’s ironic because calling free numbers don’t use the allocated 60 mins. Anyway, no subscription no access.
Also, to tell my mom call me back hahaha
Parents use smartphones as old phones and cameras, nothing else. So, easier to get the virtual phone instead of having to convince them to use whatsapp or Signal. This conversation, or conversations, will be more taxing than any virtual phone number. And, it gives them security through obscurity. Less technology, less fraud. Just look at the news of dumb people being defrauded over smartphones.
I had an almost-dumb flipphone for an extended while as backup. It had a browser and Whatsapp pre-installed and that was pretty much it, no option to install additional apps. It wasn’t that long ago, something like this might be useful for cases such as your relatives (despite the ongoing Migros overhaul). I bought it cheap from Migros, around 50.- plus the SIM, brand was emporia if memory serves.
I use w
WhatsApp for personal and skype when i want to call an international business number. Do government offices, businesses accept whatsup in general. Which is the best Skype alternate of those listed for business calls. I have skype prepaid, very cheap and reliable, sorry to see it go.
I can ditto that. It is the only platform I know of for calling a landline short of having to place an international phone call. Anybody know of anything else that can do that?
I just realized I have a cordless skype-phone in my surprise-bag-cupboard (it’s full of tech-gadges I kind of can’t let go).
It’s hard to believe it was 2003 Skype became available, I was convinced I skyped before that. As I did it a lot but did not want to be stuck to a pc (I don’t remember when I got my first laptop) I got that phone. It was before video version and even when that first became a thing skype was less about video-calls but about free calls abroad. So anyway, I sure have a museum piece in my basement.
As I did a little research just now I learnt NSA and Co. may cry over the loss of skype as well?
I’ve not skyped in years, why did people still use it? After all, what they sell people as land-line now is all VoiP as well, in fact it’s worse than a handy if internet is down, no way to communicate as I see it. So landlines should be reachable without skype?
I realize people here probably don’t use Skype anymore, and it’s being discontinued anyway in May. However, has anyone successfully imported contacts and conversations to Teams? All the hype says it’s automatic, except it doesn’t seem to be at all. And the only workaround I can find is to join the Insider program, which may or may not be a dodgy way for MS to harvest even more of your personal information.
Actually I used it yesterday to call an 800 number in the States. Pity that its going at the end of the month.
Unfortunately, I cant help you with Teams. Personally I think its overkill for my needs.
Instead, I plan to go with Viber. But I only need it to call landlines. And Viber seems to be the best alternative.
However they can also import contacts. If interested: https://help.viber.com/hc/en-us/articles/9067559172253-Sync-add-and-share-contacts
Haven’t used it since years, both, but both are available in two independent lines so I guess the migration will work only between business and business or personal and personal, or maybe the last was even neglected because…
(it’s full of tech-gadges I kind of can’t let go).