Originally Posted by
ginapeterb
Andy I could not agree with you more, thank God for the SKYPE 3 PHONE without this rather low cost and invaluable tool, Miss Gina would probably have run up around a £1000.00 a month in BT Calls.
Just cast your mind back to the times before the first cellphones came out, and even back before VOIP was ever conceived, can we all imagine just how expensive a call to another country was.
Now we make calls to the far side of the world as though we are talking on a short wave radio system, I can remember when I was a Radio Telegraphist with the Army back in 1978 and we set up a HF link with the U.S. Army in Fort Meade Maryland, using sky wave we were able to talk quite clearly, we marveled at that feat using 2 48 foot masts, and a half wave dipole, we managed to bounce a signal off the ionosphere, what a feat.
Now thats about 30 years ago, now we get too worried if a cellphone is bigger than a credit card, too inconvenient, unless it has a 3mp camera, video calling, wi fi, bluetooth, and a host of other features.
On SKYPE's fair useage policy of about 4000 minutes per month, Miss Gina certainly uses it to the full, she talks to everyone in the family most days, she can talk for hours on end at night, who knows what its about.
I am content to leave her to do this, after all she seems happy doing it, and as Keith always famously points out, when I ask her how did it go with her 2 hour conversation ?
"Oh they did not have anything to say"
So the Filipina has this great need to be in regular contact with, the family and I can only end this post with one phrase.
"Thank God for SKYPE 3 PHONE"
