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    keith with the teefkeith with the teef
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      @thinktank
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      so is anyone using viop yet? Or does it just not add up to make the move with your current set up.

      #17113
      The DukeThe Duke
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        @sgb101
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        I’ve been using skype go for about 10 years, its great.

        #17124
        RichardRichard
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          @sawboman
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          I have never knowingly used it but have perhaps suffered from those damned call centres selling snake oil from overseas via cheap VOIP links. I did do some work type work years ago on it, but that was a long, long time ago as I retired about 16 years back.

          I think it can be great if you have a need for what it can deliver and can benefit, but otherwise it is less interesting. My wife and I have lost contact with our overseas relatives and friends so the point is now lost for such calls.

          #17132
          wasbitwasbit
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            @wasbit
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            One of our elderly neighbours uses Facetime every day to chat with her daughter in Australia.

            According to Wikipedia Facetime uses VOIP (presume you meant VOIP rather than Viop).

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            #17137
            blacklion1725blacklion1725
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              @blacklion1725
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              Facebook Messenger is my weapon of choice – someone on MM tipped me off – might be you Duke – but it is great, so much so that I have dropped skype completely.

              I don’t like Facebook but the messenger facility is superb – you can run it in a browser (https://www.messenger.com) but the phone app is lean (unlike the full facebook app) and works great for text messaging, voice and video calls.

              I have a mate in the states who uses Vonage for VOIP, which gives him a Romford land line number in Colorado. Not free but not wildly expensive and better for older relatives who can ring him from a normal phone using a normal number.

               

              #17138
              The DukeThe Duke
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                @sgb101
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                The one i use the most is what’s apps, as ever ones on it, and hangouts. Tho i do use skype out as it has a ‘real number’ that anyone can call. But family and friends is a mixture of WA and HO. FB is also fine. They all are tbh.

                I still firmly believe Facebook is becoming the worlds defacto telecom communications network, without having to sink a penny into a physical network. It’s a genius move. Almost every person in the connected world has an account. At my last look, they reported over 1billion active individual accounts on FB, that’s without taking into account their what’s app user base. Which dominates in many ip markets.

                One day they will be the new yellow pages an British (world) telecom in one.

                #17139
                blacklion1725blacklion1725
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                  @blacklion1725
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                  yeah you wonder how they (FB) earn on that (messenger) though – the main FB has ads galore, the messenger app is clean and lean….maybe not forever…..or maybe it just gets more people to register an FB account even if its just for messenger.

                  #17144
                  The DukeThe Duke
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                    @sgb101
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                    A lot of these tech companies will run certain services at a loss, with the hope that one day they will figure out how to monetise it. Google and FB are probably the best examples. Snap chat a more recent one. That ipo’d for billions with the promise that one day they will figure the revenue side out.

                    Never used SC but i see it’s along way from the seedy product it once was.

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