has anyone of you ever heard of skype?

[jimbones]

A friend just told me and after a first assessment it sounds awesome.

Basically it's just a voice-over-ip program with the option of calling real telephones. paying via credit card..

has anyone tried this before?
it almost sounds to good to be true..

:bounce:

http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/

 

[NeptuneUK]

nope, and nope

 

[Tr0n]

If you have to pay then screw it.

 

[Sprafa]

It's .... decent.

 

[The Dark Elf]

These were big things a few years back.. then someone got pissed about people making free phone calls to other countries, so they started charging for them and before you knew it they all but vanished.

 

[JimmehH]

I think calls to other Skype users are free. At least they used to be a few months ago.

VoIP is pretty cool but I don't need/want it yet. I'm happy with POTS and IM.

 

[MadLog1c]

Yeah I've used it since it came out like a year or so ago, its completely free to call people who are also using Skype, but you have to pay if you want to call someone on a real phone (which I have never done before because I have a real phone). You can make conference calls of up to 5 people with it too. The voice quality is better than Team Speak and Ventrilo.

Made by the same people that did Kazaa.

 

[kayjay]

I tried it a while back. Didn't really work very well though. Could hardly hear what person i was talking to was saying :/