Just for a bit of perspective... I've been around long enough to have seen the following things happen to the good old telephone network:
1. An outage covering a good portion of my home town that stopped all calls in and out of part of the city for most of an evening. 2. A national wiring mixup that caused calls from all over the country to merge onto a single line, which resulted in quite a shouting match from time to time but also in some exchanges of addresses and a general party atmosphere that lasted for an entire business day. 3. A battery backup failure that took people in several states off the telephone network. That one I only heard about in the news and online forums, it did not affect me; and I don't know how long it lasted. I seem to recall an incident similar to the last one that affected the national AC power grid as well, though details and time frame for that one currently escape me. In short, nothing is absolutely safe from failure. :) On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:56:53PM -0000, yvonne oliver wrote: hi i am afraid we have no choice in this matter after all it is a free program in which you can talk to people all across the globe imagine the phone bill if you rung your contacts and spoke on the phone for the same length of time as you do on skype. remember that some companies charge for something like this and normally require a subscribe fee or a monthly bill charge and that does not include call charges. skype is free apart from the extras such as voice mail, text messaging from your mobile, landline and mobile calls etcetera so although it is frustrating when this kind of thing happens but having read some of the posts and replies to the problem i hear it has only happened twice. most phone companies have had more problems than this and has had crashes happen more than twice. at least they have fixed it and without saying they will see to it and take longer than normal it has been done fairly quickly in my opinion and at least once they were aware of the situation they set to work on solving it they did not say well it is the festive season and no one can do anything until the festive season is over i have an account with Vonage v o i p and for ?8.99 a month i can talk to 35 European countries but this does not mean i can chat all night like i can on skype there is a deadline of 2 hours before call charges apply that does not happen on skype and of course what about all the other countries that are not in my v o i p list? to have those included would mean an increase in my monthly charge. and the same thing applies i could not chat all night [24/7] so as annoying as it was for me also i had to put up with what was happening. but at least it is done now and i can use skype once more and it only took 2 days to complete the work and make everyone happy let's face it no one really recommends or has a good word for skype when all goes in their favour but as soon as a problem arises all bad points are automatically implied. i am very grateful to have such a luxury as free phone calls worldwide sorry for such a long biography but i am sure it makes sense and hopefully someone will agree with me Yvonne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lali" <[email protected]> To: "screen access software with skype" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] No more skype >Sorry, it is skype sociology. Could we accept this? >Sociology in skype? >We! Do! Not! Want! 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