cornontyne said:
i am new to xp and have broadband. Is it true you can use your computer to
make both local and international calls for free?
Hi there,
Yes you can make free calls locally and to the other side of the world. To
qualify that a little, free calls can only be made to people who also have
broadband or indeed dial-up although the quality is not as good with
dial-up. If you want to call a real telephone anywhere in the world that can
be done for the cost of a local call-that is to say if you call someone in
Greenland the cost will be whatever a local call is in Greenland-so local
doesn't mean local to you. You need a headset or a USB phone and they can be
bought for £25-£150 ($35-$200) depending on what features you need.
Alternatively there are adaptors that allow ordinary existing phones to be
connected to a PC. If you need to know more try
http://www.skype.com It
works quite well -on my 2Mb line the quality is about the same as an ISDN
phone.
Chelsea
