You have to remember that Skype is international. It needs to know where you are calling. I use the service and pay a small amount every three months.
You begin any landline call with the country code. In the case of the USA it is, +1. After you type in +1 you add the areacode and full phone number with no spaces and no punctuation. Wayne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 03:33 PM To: screen access software with skype Subject: [Skypeenglish] MAKING THE FREE PHONE CALL TO LAND LINE Friends, I have a link on the main page of Skype when I first sign in that says make a free phone call. I attempted to make this phone call to my brother who lives in the next county over here in Tennessee. The people that do not live in the United States I was not sure if I could use this free phone call to call these people or not. Can someone help me out with making this free phone call as i am thinking about purchasing the unlimited service but would like to try it out first. What I do is type in the number without the dashes in the edit field. i then tab down to the call button and select it but it rings and then refuses to connect. I did notice that below the edit field is links with all the numbers that a phone would have icluding the asterisk and pound key. Do I have to use these links to make the call rather than type in the number? J SMITH SKYPE NAME: JPSMITH72 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 To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link. http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com 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 To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link. http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
