Staying In Touch With Folks Back Home

Do you find the distance between Family & Friends has effected the Quality and Frequency of Talk Time?

Do You Receive Calls From: Family? Yes. No. N/A

Friends? Yes No N/A

Buisiness? Yes No N/A

Telephone Solisiters? Yes No N/A

Also: What Service Do You Use & Approx How Much Does The Service Cost?

Do you find the distance between Family & Friends has effected the Quality and Frequency of Talk Time? No

Do You Receive Calls From: Family? Yes

Friends? Yes

Buisiness? Yes, my broker

Telephone Solisiters? Yes, very rare

Also: What Service Do You Use & Approx How Much Does The Service Cost?
Skype basic service is free; computer to computer calls are free; calls to USS are about 2 cents/minute; an unlisted phone number in the USA for folks to call me toll-free is US$60 per year.

All via email or I call with Yahoo Phone

hockables wrote:Do you find the distance between Family & Friends has effected the Quality and Frequency of Talk Time?

Do You Receive Calls From: Family? Yes. No. N/A YES

Friends? Yes No N/A YES

Buisiness? Yes No N/A YES

Telephone Solisiters? Yes No N/A NO

Also: What Service Do You Use & Approx How Much Does The Service Cost?

VONAGE, $23/MO.

S.

hockables wrote:Do you find the distance between Family & Friends has effected the Quality and Frequency of Talk Time?
NO

Do You Receive Calls From: Family? Yes. No. N/A..........Yes

Friends? Yes No N/A............Yes

Buisiness? Yes No N/A...........Yes

Telephone Solisiters? Yes No N/A Not much, mainly Telmex

Also: What Service Do You Use & Approx How Much Does The Service Cost?

Have been using Majic Jack and call back.

Majic Jack, just renewed, cost was 49.95 for 5 years all of North America
Call Back, (we use for calls overseas), 12 cents a min.

Solovino wrote:Hell Telmex sin limites package gives you unlimited long distance to the US.

Correct, but it doesn't allow folks from your home area to call here sin costo. That's the advantage of Vonage and Majic Jack.

We probably spend 3 to 4 hours a week talking to family and friends in the U.S. Have been using Vonage for almost 5 years now. We're also set up with Skype but don't use it as often as I like (both parties need to be at their computers).

"(both parties need to be at their computers)."

Computer to computer is only required if you want a free connection. You can use Skype to call a phone for a very low cost -- about 2 cents per minute to the USA.

Do you find the distance between Family & Friends has effected the Quality and Frequency of Talk Time? -- NO

Do You Receive Calls From: Family? YES

Friends? YES

Buisiness? YES

Telephone Solisiters? NO

Also: What Service Do You Use & Approx How Much Does The Service Cost?

Ooma -- quality of calls is pretty much unmatched by other VoIP (about $180 cost of equipment and life-time phone number is included)
Magic Jack as back up
U.S. cell phone
Telcel cell phone
Telmex land line and ISP
all tied together with Google Voice