Posts Tagged ‘VOIP’
Wow, My Home phone service with 8X8 or Packet8 as it was formerly known, is going up in price by 3 or so bucks a month every month… (of course they were so kinds as to tell me the price raise wasn’t happening 3 days before it goes into effect… So after 1 month shy of using this service for 5 years, I started looking into an alternative service…
Now, I’m trying to figure out if I can transfer phone numbers into Skype and not have to change numbers… I had some money still in an account as credit on Skype… so I started the monthly subscription to Skype… to pay for unlimited calling… for 2.95/month…
That service includes Voicemail on my skype line… supposedly the way it’s set up… if someone calls me via Skype and I’m not online or don’t answer, then the service will try my business number as it is set to forward to my business line right now…(It even allows multiple forwarding numbers, though I’m unsure how it works with more than one yet.) and then if not answered… a person can leave a voicemail on Skype for me and I’ll be emailed that I have a message…
Plus I still have unlimited outbound calling to anywhere in the US and Canada, as long as I have a computer with Skype on it… or if I get a mobile skype device… Plus I have a Skypeout number I think it is, where I can can from a landline into Skype and either listen to messages or connect to the service to make phone calls from within the Skype network. I even have the option of using my cell phone as my caller ID number, unless I purchase or use an ‘online’ number. The only thing I don’t have right now is an incoming or ‘online’ number for people not on Skype to call me… but as I said, if I can transfer a number into Skype, then I’m going to transfer my current home number over I think… since it will cost for 1 year of service what it is costing or actually going to now cost every month for my 8X8 service… so I’ll save 11 months of services, and pay out less than $3/month… almost a 10 month savings on reducing one bill… and easier as a VOIP service to travel with… because my other VOIP service requires I have the box plugged into an Ethernet… whereas Skype only requires a computer connected anywhere to the Internet to work…
Yes I’m limited on not being able to do 911 calls, but I don’t use that service anyway even now… Perhaps a really good reason to use Skype more… I’ll see how it goes service (quality) wise and how all the services work…
