Yes, finally! It seems that we have been without dependable phone service since we were in Vegas in May. We hate to spend money on our monthly bill when we can't use our phones. In Bridgeport we were able to get enough of a signal when we were connected to our external antennae or in other areas we would have to drive miles to find a place where we could get a connection. Most of the time we were in Yosemite area we only had two bars on analog roam. If you tried to make a phone call with that, you would just get some nasty beeping sounds to tell you "sorry".
We have Sprint. It always seemed to be good enough in years past, but I think it's because we never stayed in a regional area long enough to worry about it. Sprint works fine in the east, but not so good out here in California.
We started to check into our options:
1. Cancel one of the phones and switch it to Verizon. This would give us greater coverage, but no more free Diane-to-Andy phone calls.
2. Skype. Skype is free Skype-to-Skype and is used through your internet service. This would help us out when we have internet and no phone service. They also have a pay-for service to call land lines or cell phones. This is an option.
3. Windows Live Messenger. We use this for IMing and just learned that there is a phone service available. We can call land lines and cell phones through the internet at 1.9 cents per minute. You prepay like a calling card. This might be our first choice the next time we need it, because we'll only use it periodically. My favorite Geeks brought this to our attention.
I'm just curious if anyone else had any ideas or experiences?
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Hey guys. I've used the MSN messenger service and Skype before. Unless they've upgraded MSN recently it was kinda touch and go but I was doing a computer to computer connection to Western Europe. It may be more stable with a land line on one end. Skype worked well though for what I needed it for.
Both are really easy to use but you may want to check a couple computer to computer free calls to see what may be more stable before you shell out some bucks for this stuff.
I have to say that hours long conversations to Denmark for free is pretty cool.
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