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Top Five Skype Tips: Page 5 of 5

If you are not using SkypeOut, sign up for it. SkypeOut is like a calling card you add to Skype. SkypeOut allows you to call any landline telephone or cell phone in the world inexpensively. In fact, you can make free, unlimited calls to phones in the US and Canada. SkypeOut works like a calling card, you signup for minutes on the Skype website and you are then able to make a Skype call to a telephone number.

#5 – Add SkypeIn

SkypeIn lets you have a local phone number local so that anyone can call you using a telephone and a local number to reach you on your computer via Skype. For example, if you have several family members in California and you live in Wisconsin, your California contacts can call you using a regular telephone calling your California SkypeIn number and reach you in Wisconsin.

Overseas, you could have a telephone number in one of the following countries; Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong S.A.R., Japan, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. You can give your contacts an inexpensive way to contact you anywhere in the world by giving them a local SkypeIn telephone number. SkypeIn also gives you a voicemail account for free when you sign up. SkypeIn costs 10 Euro for 3 months or 30 Euro for a year, voice mail included.