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Topic: Need low cost calling to Europe from the United States...
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LEXX
Moderator Posts: 6312
From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 12:19 PM
  
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need a plan better that 30cents + a minute!
Any ideas???????????------------------
~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Nikola Tesla
~There is no box.~H♥
~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX
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Coffee
Knowflake Posts: 1925
From: Leeds
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 02:36 PM
How about completely free?Get skype. You can video call, chat or do voice call. It's totally free as long as the other person has SKYPE. Lebara and lyca mobile are the ones that I seem drawn to, though not sure of the prices. IP: Logged |
lechien
Knowflake Posts: 1114
From: my 30 cubic square meter room with a rat!
Registered: May 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 02:57 PM
even if the other person doesn't have Skype, it's still quite cheap, even more if it's a land line. you should definitely get it.IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 6312
From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 04:24 PM
Tried Skype.
No luck.
The connection breaks up too much. 
Apparently it does not work everywhere.
To England seems to work part time but not all the time, but No luck to Scotland, Wales, Ireland and a few other places.
Could be my idiot internet provider.  IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 6312
From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 04:34 PM
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Originally posted by lechien:
even if the other person doesn't have Skype, it's still quite cheap, even more if it's a land line. you should definitely get it.
What is cheap?  Not sure what you mean.IP: Logged |
katatonic
Knowflake Posts: 6551
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 04:36 PM
i buy $10 calling cards and the rate, if you use a landline and call a landline, is about 5c per...available in multiple stores, i use my local pharmacy. cell phones will eat it up though.i also had a plan with ATT on my old landline where the rate was similar, though there was a monthly charge to make it happen (can't remember but NOT steep) which makes sense if you call there OFTEN. if it's once in a blue moon, not so hot. IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 6312
From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 04:39 PM
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Originally posted by katatonic:
i buy $10 calling cards and the rate, if you use a landline and call a landline, is about 5c per...available in multiple stores, i use my local pharmacy.i also had a plan with ATT on my old landline where the rate was similar, though there was a monthly charge to make it happen (can't remember but NOT steep) which makes sense if you call there OFTEN. if it's once in a blue moon, not so hot.
Yeah I have a land line but unfortunately all persons I'd call only have cell phones.
Hence the problem I guess.
Sadly my land line has totally free long distance
but only on this continent.
I have Windstream. It is crap. About $100 a month for phone and internet not including any European calls.
Any better options please do tell!
Once my divorce is done....not sure how I will afford things. IP: Logged |
lechien
Knowflake Posts: 1114
From: my 30 cubic square meter room with a rat!
Registered: May 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 05:21 PM
i meant from Skype. you can call the landlines and mobile phones with Skype and it's quite cheap.but that's too bad that it's not working so well for you. it's probably the internet though, not the region. i've used it to calle/chat with many locations but never had place/specific problems... i hope you'll find a way! IP: Logged |
teasel
Knowflake Posts: 3022
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 10, 2011 07:12 PM
I would recommend Vonage (I think that's what we have), if it didn't regularly cut out. We pay a set fee per month, and that includes overseas calls. Mum skypes regularly, with my aunts, sister, cousins, friends... IP: Logged |
mochai
Knowflake Posts: 908
From: Charon
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted June 10, 2011 07:50 PM
Apparently magic jack is saying if you send a magic jack device to someone overseas they can get a domestic number you can call like they're in the states or vice versa. It's $34 and then $19 annually. I was thinking about buying one to replace my phone line/cell phone. http://www.ehow.com/how_4735619_free-international-calls-magicjack.html I use skype to talk computer to computer to an overseas friend. Yahoo should still have a call setup where you can chat via mic with webcam being optional. Phone cards aren't bad either. I used to use them to call people in Peru, but the rates were higher if I were calling their cell versus a land-line. Edit: I also looked into gmail, and they have a calling system where you can call a landline in France for 2 cents a minute, or say finland for 3 cents. Not sure where you are calling. IP: Logged |
emitres
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Registered: Aug 2010
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posted June 10, 2011 09:41 PM
when we lived in houston we had comcast i believe... was a bundled package with phone, internet and tv... i understand verizon and vonage are also good low cost options...------------------
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crabbypatty
Knowflake Posts: 497
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 20, 2011 04:25 PM
Lexx, I use the Mega Clean card from Union Telecard. Germany is 1.7 cents a minute, for example; France is 2.0 cents. Here is the link to their rates.
http://www.uniontelecard.com/phonecards/2045/mega-clean-and-stable/highlighted-rates/ IP: Logged |
crabbypatty
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Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 20, 2011 04:27 PM
oh, you call people with cell phones- just saw that. Well, Ireland cell is 17.2 cents/minute on Mega Clean.IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 6312
From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 20, 2011 05:36 PM
crabbypatty 
Thank you!
Waaay better than my 30 cents or more a minute!
I will look into it!
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~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Nikola Tesla
~There is no box.~H♥
~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX
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LEXX
Moderator Posts: 6312
From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion!
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 20, 2011 05:39 PM
mochai
Will look into that too!emitres thank you!
I wondered about Comcast. Will look into it also. ------------------
~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Nikola Tesla
~There is no box.~H♥
~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX
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