Skype - Is it good value for Money?

[astraqomuk]

To misquote the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine

"There are only two ways to run a telephone company, the Voipfone way and the wrong way."

If you're still active here in 12 months, you may send me a quote of your own ;-)

A certain part of the musical "Annie get your gun" comes to mind.

Sir...it will be my pleasure to follow-up with you at that date.

P.S. If the reference to the musical was too subtle, please let me know and I can elaborate...because you know...we care about people here at AstraQom and want to make things easy for you.

 

[HRinMinutes]

For non confidential i.e. sales types calls it can work very well but the quality can be poor and on some systems your call shows up, even with number withheld as International call so is barred. Its a good system for a 2nd option but not a first choice for the problems mentioned.

 

[drdialeruk]

I am using skype from last 5 or 6 years. and its fine for me most of the time. its really depends internet connection for clear calls. skype is the best way to communicate with our known people. and the best thing about it that its free.

 

[william04]

Skype is the important part of our business and personal use both. Other competitors are far behind if we compare to its features.

 

[javismiles]

value is good, i just have problems sometimes with call quality or skype dropping or crashing

 

[ProductCreators]

Skype is really food value for that money, but it might be worth having a look at http://tox.im/ it's an alternative to Skype that isn't ran by windows? Might be useful.

Cheers,

Rich,

 

[JonnyMP]

Skype is a really good service to use for personal reasons, though they might frown on excessive use for business. There is a fair use policy in place for all Skype users and if they think you are using it for business, they might review or restrict your account.

 

[techielab.net]

Skype is simply great either for individuals or businesses!

 

[Small Biz Geek]

I've been using it since 2012 as my landline phone system. It has been excellent, plus, I've used it to record interview style video/audio screencasts with work associates. I'm very pleased with Skype.

When I started up in business, I was unemployed and money was none existent.

I tried to set up a free phone system based on Skype called "SipGate" but I could never get it to work.

I'm glad to pay the money to Skype for the SkypeIN number, and then I buy phone credit which I use to make outgoing calls. Be warned though, it costs a lot to call mobiles, so in those circumstances I just call from my mobile.

In response to those raising the issue of call quality - I find the quality is severely impacted when I have lots of other programs running on my computer.

If you keep other applications running in the background to a minimum, things are not so bad.

Of course, Skype depends entirely on the internet so I've been pretty peeved when VirginMedia has dropped out (which has been a lot lately).