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jayfurrDoes anyone out there use Skype? My parents, for some odd reason, are all enthusiastic about it. It's not a financial boon for Carole and me since we pay a flat minimum fee to our localtelco for long distance and only pay additional charges if we exceed 400 minutes, which we never do.
But my parents use it to talk to my sister and her family in Germany (where my brother in law is doing his Fulbright scholarship) and by extension I could use it for the same purpose if I really felt like talking trans-Atlantic. Since Skype users don't pay for calls to other Skype users, calls to my sister in Germany would be free.
To make my parents happy I ordered a Logitech USB headset and signed up for Skype and talked to them briefly this afternoon. If they want to call me via Skype I guess that's fine; I have no idea what their long distance plan looks like so it might be cheaper for them to call me that way.
But my parents use it to talk to my sister and her family in Germany (where my brother in law is doing his Fulbright scholarship) and by extension I could use it for the same purpose if I really felt like talking trans-Atlantic. Since Skype users don't pay for calls to other Skype users, calls to my sister in Germany would be free.
To make my parents happy I ordered a Logitech USB headset and signed up for Skype and talked to them briefly this afternoon. If they want to call me via Skype I guess that's fine; I have no idea what their long distance plan looks like so it might be cheaper for them to call me that way.
