SkypeIn and SkypeOut
With Skype In and Skype Out, you can easily extend your Skype from just PC-to-PC calling to a whole new world of connectivity.
Early 2005, Skype introduced 3 new features that would bring this nifty little software to a whole new playing ground. With SkypeIn, SkypeOut and Skype Voice Mail, the world’s first working model of true Internet telephony took the next big step.
What is SkypeOut?
SkypeOut is a service by Skype that allows you to use Skype to call out to any regular mobile phone or fixed phone anywhere in the world. On the website itself, the company describes it as “…a low cost way to make calls from Skype to friends who still use those traditional landlines or mobile phones. That means calling anyone, anywhere in the world at local rates.”
To use Skype Out you’ll of course need an active Skype account, and a credit card. You can buy Skype Out in denominations of €10.00 (equivalent to $13.3) and top it up whenever necessary. Your purchase would give you credits which you can use to make phone calls to fixed phones and mobile phones at the rates mentioned on the website.
What is SkypeIn?
A reverse of SkypeOut, this feature will assign your Skype account with a real phone number that anyone can call. When someone calls this number, the call will be forwarded to your Skype account and you’ll hear your Skpe ringing. The number of the person calling, instead of a Skype account, will appear.
According to the website, “SkypeIn makes it much easier and less expensive for those of your friends, family and business contacts who are not necessarily connected to the Internet to call you”
This is a great tool for any business to use especially since you can instantly expand your business horizon to new countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Poland and Sweden. The cost for a 12 month subscription is € 30 and 3 months is € 10.
What is Skype Voicemail?
Another feature you definately need to get for your Skype is the Skype Voicemail feature, which allows people to leave messages for you when you’re offline, or already talking to another user in Skype. Currently this feature is free when you get SkypeIn, or you can just pay € 15 for 12 months and € 5 for 3 months if you don’t want SkypeIn.
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