Using Skype overseas

[britboyj]

Rather than paying the ridiculous AT&T overseas rates, I figured I'd download Skype and pay the monthly fee or credit or whatever while I'm in the UK over the summer to call cell-phones and land-lines in the US.

Because this is a US phone, calling from a Wifi in the UK, which Skype package do I need? Will Skype KNOW I'm calling from a UK IP or does it only care about the device?

 

[jeniferkey]

I used Truphone for this last year, and it worked fine. You might consider having AT&T turn off your voice mail, because that can be a per minute hit.

 

[JollyRogers]

Use Skype all the time on my 1st gen iPhone when in Japan to call home. Used to use Fring w/ Skype and it worked OK. Now using Skype. Japan doesn't have a lot of wireless hotspots, so in my room I plug laptop into wired network and share the airport w. wep key. iPhone finds it and I skype my wife through it. Just need the right country code is all.

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (white): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

Skype doesn't care where you are. I use it all the time here in Japan.

 

[CBR900RR]

You pay a connection fee plus per minute fee, if you use is often, you might consider their monthly subscription.

 

[SiuPak]

for outgoing wifi calls, just buy some credits is fine, they won't care where your are.

 

[britboyj]

So I just need the $2.95 (by the minute would rack up) plan for one month and then pay 20 cents if I have to call anyone in the UK.

That sounds freaking awesome.

 

[gloss]

So I just need the $2.95 (by the minute would rack up) plan for one month and then pay 20 cents if I have to call anyone in the UK.

That sounds freaking awesome.

And if you're calling to another Skype user it is, of course, free.

 

[iSaga]

Yes purchase the US plan for 2.95 a month and it works like a charm. I use skype to call back home to the US from Norway all the time. For 2.95 a month I get unlimited calling to the US, pretty freaking unbelievable.