I live in Trinidad and Tobago. Will e-mail you off list. Francis Khan ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: Skype Mailing List Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:01 PM Subject: [Skypeenglish] Showing your mobile number to people you call
Hi Francis, You can only set up mobile numbers to be displayed to people you call. I can't remember what country you are in, but there might be some limitations that way, too. Anyhow, I am in Canada and just set this up. Here is what you have to do: 1. Press Alt+A from Skype to go to the "Account" menu. Press enter on the first option "View your account". 2. When the website with your account information is displayed, arrow down until you see "Caller Identification". There is a link called "View Settings", click on that. 3. There now should be an edit box where you can enter your mobile number and then you have to click "Save". 4. You should see some sort of confirmation message, read it carefully as there is another step to perform for which you may need sighted help unless you have an accessible mobile phone such as a Smartphone using MobileSpeak. This last step is a confirmation. Skype will send a text message to your Cell phone which contains a code. You then have to go back to "View your account" from within Skype and enter this confirmation code. After that you will see a message that your caller identification should be active within a day or so. Once again I don't know if it works for you if you are outside of the United States or Canada, for me it now is working, people I call with Skype Out on their regular phone or cell phone can see my mobile number. As far as certain landlines not accepting your Skype call, I can only tell you that here in Canada this only happens if somebody subscribes to what I think generally is referred to as "Caller Reveal" This is a service offered by the phone companies which means nobody with a blocked number can call unless they identify themselves. I have a friend who has this and in her case I would get a recording saying "The person you are calling does not accept calls from unidentified numbers. After the beep, please say your name". If you then say your name after the beep, my friends phone will ring, the system informs her that she has a call from. now my recorded name or short message will play, and then she can either accept or decline the call. In some cases you have to enter your phone number instead of recording your name but either method works from Skype. Good luck, you can e-mail me directly if you have more questions, my e-mail is: Sieghard at telus.net Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
