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| View Poll Results: What do you use to call back home? | |||
| National telephone carrier. Expensive, but who cares. |     | 9 | 19.57% |
| Skype. Heard of them. Supposingly good. |    | 26 | 56.52% |
| Yahoo / MSN chat software |    | 6 | 13.04% |
| iPrimus or other internet telephony software. |    | 3 | 6.52% |
| I don't call anyone! |    | 5 | 10.87% |
| A phonecard. |    | 14 | 30.43% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 46. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Sat 10-Nov-07, 06:21 PM
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| Guru   Join Date: Jun 2007 Occupation: Teacher Location: 
Posts: 58
 | Re: How do you call back home? I tried the internet calling thing and it just didn't work fast enough to get calls through. Wasted $10 on that crap. Whenever I want to call home now I just use my cell phone. China Mobile has some code to call the US for 0.39RMB/min. I think I can afford that. |
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Thu 17-Jan-08, 10:16 AM
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| ESL Rookie   Join Date: Jan 2008 Nationality: Australian Occupation: English Teacher / Director Location: 
Posts: 28
| Re: How do you call back home? GO SKYPE !!! I'm in Japan, brother's in London, Parents in Australia, and I have cousins in America, Canada and Israel.... but we all meet up on Skype and often we have 3 way group chats for free.... Skype will probably disconnect on you once every 45-60 minutes if you have anything less than a super fast broadband... but the price is right. I use "SKYPEOUT" which is the telephone calling feature of Skype...you put $10 on your account and it gives you about 50 hours of calling time to another country's land line... Call your family and friends overseas, even if they don't have skype, a computer or internet !!!
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Thu 17-Jan-08, 10:34 AM
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| Administrator   Join Date: May 2005 Nationality: American Occupation: Teacher Location: 
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 | Re: How do you call back home? SkypeIn is also great. You pay less than $100 / year and get to choose a local number in any country you want. So if you buy a local Sydney number, friends and family can call that local Sydney number for the cost of a local call, and it then rings your PC if you have it on. If not, then it goes to voice mail. To receive the call it's free.
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Thu 18-Sep-08, 05:33 PM
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| Guru  Join Date: Sep 2008 Nationality: Australian Occupation: Head Hunter Location:
Posts: 53
| Re: How do you call back home? Skype is the most hassle free method, the video chat also works well. Although I often just call of my mobile the rates aren't that expensive and it is convenient. You just have to call 10086 and then 2 for English and ask to speak to an operator and ask them. |
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Thu 18-Sep-08, 07:41 PM
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| ESL Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Occupation: IT Location: 
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| Re: How do you call back home? Yes, Skype is such a great online communication tool.The conversation is very clear and the video is not "delayed"
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