More about the Skype phone
My latest post about my Skype phone being disconnected reminded me to post another Skype related post.
I get awful cell phone service in my house from Sprint. I can’t even have a conversation unless I go out on my front steps or out in the backyard, and in Minnesota winters thats not really doable. So, when people call me I typically answer and quickly tell them that I’ll call back and simply hang up, cause they probably didn’t hear me anyways. Some of my friends are used to this now, like Jake, he hears me squawk something and then waits for the callback.
I’ve seriously considered signing up for SkypeIn which is a service that Skype offers where you can assign a telephone number to your Skype account so that people can call you as if your Skype phone is a real phone. It costs about $6 bucks a month, which is a small fraction of our cell phone bill, so this is very enticing.
The problem is related to how my phone stopped working for a few days. If my phone is unreliable, people aren’t going to call it, they’ll just call my cell phone instead which defeats the whole purpose. If you buy a landline phone at Radio Shack and plug it in, that thing is reliable as hell, they never just stop working, so you can be confident when you give out your phone number that the phone will ring when they call.
I still might get it soon just because the cost barrier is so low theres not much to lose, then I just have the problem of getting people to call that number before my cell number, which will take some time I think.
