Skype - Voip International Calls Service

Skype, Perhaps best of all programs of the internet Phone calls. Allows you to call other people who have Skype for free, and you can dial a normal number for a very low rate. It also has optional services (which are paid) that can be useful. In this section we will deal with Skype to the following arguments:

Call with Skype

• Installation program
• Minimum System Requirements
• Recommended system requirements
• User's Guide
• How to improve sound quality
• Conference Call
• Contacts and permissions
• Connection Status
• Text field to speed dial
• Making calls with Skype
• How to add or change my photo
• Translation of Skype and load user-defined language
• Uninstalling Skype

SkypeOut

• SkypeOut
• SkypeOut Rates

Installation of program:-

First, low, since Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/es/download/

Minimum system requirements:

• PC with Windows 2000 or XP
• 400 MHz processor
• 128 MB of RAM
• 15 MB free hard disk
• Sound card, speakers and microphone
• Internet connection (either dial-up modem as a minimum of 33.6 Kbps or any banda ancha, whether cable, DSL or other)

Recommended system requirements:

• PC with Windows 2000 or XP
• 1 GHz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 30 MB free hard disk
• Full-duplex sound card (most of the sound boards manufactured after 1998), headphones with microphone
• Internet connection by cable, DSL or equivalent broadband connection.

After having downloaded the program, start the installation by double clicking the file you downloaded. You open the program's license, you must agree to continue the installation.
Then follow the onscreen instructions, it does not normally have to change anything of the default options and just have to accept what is given. When you open the program for the first time, will choose a username and password. Congratulations! Already have your Skype account and it works. Skype is a simple guide that explains the main functions. For your comfort is here.
Quick Start Guide

If you are an advanced user or an application you used to chat before, many of the features of Skype will be known. This quick start guide explains how you can immediately start calling your contacts after you have installed the Skype program. Keep in mind that your contacts must also install Skype and register as a user before you can start using it.

• Start Skype.

• Log in with your username and password. This happens automatically by default if you've chosen a username and password and you are connected to the Internet.

• When you start Skype for the first time, your contact list will be empty. To find your friends and add them to your contact list, select Search for Skype users on the Tools menu, or in the toolbar, click the Search button. A new window will open where you can search for friends by name or by any other information they have put in your user profile.

• To add a contact, you simply right-click on the username of the search result and select Add to Contacts.

• There are several ways to call a contact:

Make or right-click on the username you want to call in the contact list and select Call this member, or select the name in the search result and click the Call button.
or Double-click the user name in the contacts list or the search results.
or select a user name and click the call button which is located at the bottom of the window.

• If someone calls you, you will hear the telephone ringing and the Skype icon will flash in the system tray. Open the Skype window (if not already visible) and choose if you want to meet or reject the call on the call sheet.

• When deciding on a call, it will start a two-way voice conversation will be the duration of the call.

• Anyone who is speaking can end the call at any time by clicking the button to hang up (on the call sheet or in the toolbar quickly, if visible).

How to improve sound quality

To enjoy the best sound quality possible, we strongly recommend that you try the following:

• Use a headset with microphone. These devices significantly improve the sound quality and can be purchased in store or on Skype accessories home computer.

• Tell your friends to buy a headset with microphone. Please note that the voice quality depends on the equipment used by both members of the call. The best way to ensure high sound quality is that both users use a headset with microphone.

• If you do not have one, it is likely that they can improve the sound quality if:or use headphones instead of speakers on your computer;or the microphone closer or further away from your mouth;or use an external microphone (note that most laptops use low-quality microphones); or update the drivers for your soundcard.
  

• Please note that if you do not have a microphone, you can use headphones as a temporary solution and connect the microphone input of the soundcard. Try it!

Conference calling

Skype is now possible for a total of up to 5 people to participate in a conference call. It is easy to initiate such a communication with Skype and there are several ways to do so. If you want to call several people at once and start a conference call, participants must first choose from the contacts list while pressing the Ctrl key and clicking each one. Once selected, click the button on the toolbar to the conferences. This will open the conference and will record the names of participants to whom you called. If participants attend your call will be included in the conference.

Otherwise, if you're already in a call and want to add another participant to the conversation, you can choose in the list and click the conference button on the toolbar, or you can simply click button on the side of a new contact list and select the Invite to the conference.
Remember the beginning of the conference (user host) is the only person who can add new participants. Moreover, because Skype conferences are done by a pair, it is important that the initiatives have a good team and a fast connection to the Internet. If you intend to conduct a conference call with many participants, you must choose the person who has the best connection to initiate the conversation.

Skype is divided into several tabs, and each has a specific purpose. The tabs Home, Contacts and Call Log are always visible, while others only appear when needed (for example, if you make or receive a call). To view a tab, simply click the title bar. To close, click the right mouse button and select close tab.

Home tab

The Home tab is automatically whenever you start Skype. There you can view a summary of relevant information, such as the number of missed calls and online contacts.

Contacts tab

The Contacts tab displays other Skype users who were added to your list of contacts. The icon to the left of each name indicates the user online status. Clicking the right mouse button on any user name on this list, a menu with options of communication or administration of the user. To search for contacts, simply select the option Search for Skype users from the Tools menu. To add a contact, simply click the button on one side of the usernames listed in the search result and select Add to Contacts.

Call Record Sheet

The Call Log tab displays a list of your recent calls and communications. On this tab you can see when and with whom to talk. You can also use this form as "redial button clicking any previous conversation and clicking on the secondary Call.

Ongoing call sheet

If you try to call someone or if someone tries to call you, a new calling card. If you are called in the chip can accept or reject the call by pressing the appropriate button.
Contacts and approvals

Contacts

The users you add to your list are "contacts" or "friends." On the Privacy tab, which you access by going to the File menu and selecting Options, you can choose to accept only incoming calls or messages that come from people on your contact list. Notices in the schedule of calls and message alerts, you can set different levels of alerts for incoming communications, as the other person is or not in your contact list.

Authorized Users

Skype protects your privacy by showing that you are connected only to users authorized for seeing that information. When you add another user to your contact list will open the dialog applications. If accepted, the user is authorized. If rejected, by contrast, does not permit such user (note that this person does not receive any response to your request). If ignored, the application will appear in the Startup tab until you take some action. Please note that the Privacy tab (File> Options), you can choose to accept calls or messages only from people you've authorized.

Blocked Users

If blocking a username, you can not communicate with you again (and you with it). Always appear as offline to the users you've blocked. You can modify the list of blocked users in Tools> Manage blocked user (or File> Options> Privacy> Manage Blocked Users)
Connection Status

Your online status is displayed in the status bar of Skype (at the bottom of program window). You can change your online status by clicking the appropriate icon or selecting the File menu.
The connection status can be any of the following:

• Connected: This is the default state when you log on to Skype.

• Absent: enabled if you are logged in, but you have not used your computer for some time.

• Not available: enabled if you are logged into Skype, but you have not used your computer for a long time.

• Busy: You can use this status to indicate you're busy.

• Invisible when using this rule, you can use Skype as you're connected, but others see you as if you were not.

• Off means that the user is not connected to Skype, or has chosen to indicate that it is invisible or offline.

Text field to speed dial

The text field near the bottom of the Skype main window enables you to call directly to another user by typing your username and pressing the Enter key.
Making calls with Skype

There are several ways to call another Skype user:

• In the contact list or call log simply click your mouse on a contact that is connected and select the option to call. You can also select a user name and press the big green button to call the toolbar quickly.

• In the text box, type a user name and press the Enter key.

• Double-click a user name.

Skype Chat Conversations

Skype Chat lets you chat with other Skype users using your keyboard. You can even do this with several people at once. For more information about Skype Chat, see the Users' Guide to Skype Chat.

How to add or change my photo

Open Skype and go to the File menu. Select your user profile .... You'll see the display picture box at the bottom left corner of the window. To upload an image stored on your PC, simply click Browse and impórtala. You can upload jpeg and bmp. If you have an image, you can download Skype for the images in the Share Skype site. Translation of languages Skype and load user-defined

The Skype program was originally created in English, but can easily translated into any other language. We encourage users to create and share translated language files (. Lang), to other Skype users who do not know English.

Skype to translate, choose the "Edit Skype language file ..." on the Tools menu. A simple text editor that displays the item that has been translated to the left, in the original version and the translated text to the right. Any text that appears on the right can be translated. Skype To translate, simply type the translation in the right column. The elements that have the words correspond to Menu menus Skype. The caption indicated that they appear in the titles of the dialogs of the program. Those with an indication Hint correspond to the text that appears when you move the cursor over an item.

If you are unsure of the context of a particular word or phrase, click the Apply button to see the changes directly in the program. Note that the text in the About screen will not load.
Skype never loaded into other languages, the legal texts of the About page, so no need to translate.

To save your language file, just click on Save As ... and rescale them to a file name languages. To upload a language file, click the Load button and select a file with an. Lang.
We encourage our users to visit our forum to share and analyze the language files.

Uninstalling Skype

To uninstall Skype, open the Control Panel (Start> Control Panel or Start> Settings> Control Panel) and choose the Add or Remove Programs. Select Skype and click the Remove button. Consult your system if you want to keep or remove your contact list and call log. This can be useful if you plan to reinstall Skype in the future, when the want to have saved your contact list. Choose the appropriate option to remove Skype from your PC.

SkypeOut

SkypeOut is the service with which you can efectual calls to phone numbers all over the world using the Skype program. It is very cheap and interesting, because the quality is the same as a normal call.

Skype Rates

The fare is the standard Skype SkypeOut Global Rate. Is $ 0.023 per minute, and no matter where you are, wherever you want to just call.

This fare is valid for the following destinations:

Argentina (Buenos Aires), Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Canada (mobiles), Chile, China (Beijing, Guanzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen), China (mobiles), Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (mobiles), Ireland, Italy, Mexico (Mexico City, Monterrey), Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland (Poland, Gdansk, Warsaw), Portugal, Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Taipei), United Kingdom, United States (except Alaska and Hawaii), United States (mobiles) and last but not least: Vatican.
The rate refers to calls to fixed numbers. If not indicated, usually calls to mobiles are more expensive (but still less than a traditional call).

VoIP International Calls - IP Telephony Service

VoIP International Calls - IP Telephony

Ip telephony means all new forms of technological innovation that has revolutionized the market of global telephone calls by international and national as well. IP Telephony (IP means Internet Protocol) is an abbreviation for VoIP telephony (VoIP means "Voice over IP), which operates through dedicated systems.

To understand why VoIP was so successful in the international market, it is necessary to know a little how it works and is an international call over the Internet. When compraso credit for a voice communication program such as skype, or when buying a prepaid card, we are actually buying the right to use an IP telephony gateway.

The number you are calling from the card (usually free - or if not if you want more minutes of conversation can call a local number but also the price of the card shall pay the local call), it connects to the gateway of our area. From this, the call is translated into digital format for Transmeta internet gateway to the local IP telephony recipient. Hence the call is translated back into analog format and through traditional phone lines, reaches the recipient's home telephone.
Then takes advantage of IP telephony low cost internet for much lower prices. Most of the cost of a call is, of course, the use of analogue lines or overseas, in some cases, satellite.

What is actually IP telephony is "cut" some passages in the economics of telecommunications, giving more advantages to the end.

Internet Phone calling - How Internet Calls Flourish?

The economic crisis requires thinking about how to reduce costs, to help the family budget or the company's finances. One of the prerequisites is the phone. To order pizza, or a doctor to discuss the terms of a contract, the phone is crucial, as does the cell. But the combination of mobile, the spread of broadband (fixed or mobile) and Wi-Fi makes it possible to analyze other forms of communication to reduce fixed costs.

We speak of the voice service over IP (VoIP, in computer jargon) which allows voice transmission over the Internet. The advantage is that enough to have the one computer and a broadband connection so they can talk all you want, at no cost (beyond access to the Internet), and an audio quality equal to or better than offered by conventional telephony. In fact, most of the calls that are made in the traditional network is transformed at some point in a VoIP call.

This was the popular video service Skype (www.skype.com), which now has 370 million users. It offers an instant messenger that allows chat, make free calls and video conferences between Skype users to call traditional phones from your PC at low cost, for we must buy credits worth of minutes per call, or pay a monthly subscription. Other messengers free like Windows Live Messenger (download.live.com / messenger) or Yahoo! Messenger (ar.messenger.yahoo.com) also allow for voice connections between users of this network and to call landlines and mobile phones.

The control of these services, not long ago was that it was talking to a microphone, sitting in front of the PC. But this is changing: with the advent of cell phones with Wi-Fi and 3G, it is possible to have an application that can connect to these networks and to initiate calls from mobile VoIP. The advantage is the portability and convenience of using a device that is designed just to talk, if you have an unlimited internet connection and the speaker uses the same service call is free.

The only one that has a formal application for Windows Mobile phones and iPhone is Skype. There is also a Java version for mobile phones and Symbian-Nokia-Sony Ericsson and others, but is more limited, the BlackBerry version is in development. There are freeware alternatives, compatible with mobile operating systems mentioned. Besides Skype, connect to networks of Windows Live, Yahoo! and Google Talk to make calls to a PC or a cell with this application. Among the most popular are Fringe (www.fring.com), Nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com), has offices in Argentina) Truphone (www.truphone.com) and Talkonaut (www.talkonaut. com).

Its use is simple: you must install the application that is downloaded from the site or in the mobile browser, entered into the system, and activate the accounts of the messenger (just entered our username and password). Then, whether we are going to connect via Wi-Fi or 3G. The application will show which contacts are online, we can chat with them, as an alternative to SMS, and if you want to start a voice call.

But there's more: if you purchased Skype credit can be used to call any traditional phone number. The alternative to Skype, which owns, is the standard SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) for voice calls over the Internet. The nice thing about SIP is that no matter what application is being used, while consistent, may be used to make standard calls.

On the Web there are a huge number of providers of voice over IP support, you can purchase credit to make calls and use them later from any program on any device, just have the information necessary to connect. These providers offer an own application (softphone, in the jargon). Among them are VoIPblaster (www.voipblaster.com) VoIPStunt (www.voipstunt.com) and Net2Phone (www.net2phone.com).

In between is Gizmo5 (www.gizmo5.com), a multi-platform softphone that allows you to make video calls between Gizmo users, chat with other services, make calls to the telephone network via SIP, and Skype users through a OpenSky service called (which has an annual cost of $ 20).

The softphone is an application that simulates a phone, simply dial the number and initiate the call. The service is the cost of it and the remaining credit on the account.

As an alternative to make low cost calls, but do not require either broadband or a special application are Jajah (www.jajah.com) and RebTel (www.rebtel.com) is entered, the site of service, phone number you want call us and we want the number to call, and the system generates two local calls to make the connection, which lowers costs, especially in international connections.

It is also possible to use a service called Voice over IP compliant with SIP standard without a computer, but need a broadband connection. We use a device that functions as an adapter between a conventional telephone and the Internet router. Permitted to use any phone to make VoIP calls and if a call is received such that the device will ring. In the market also tend to appear dual phones capable of connecting to the telephone system common in the PC and Skype, the base has a USB cable to the computer. The more advanced models are able to initiate calls to Skype contacts from the phone. As with SoftPhones, if the call is a SIP number to another (regardless of provider) will have no cost, because it never leaves the Internet.

The limitations of VoIP

In all cases will require a credit card or PayPal account to purchase credit. By using these services must be borne in mind that if you cut the light or the Internet connection, there will be any calls, except with a 3G mobile connection and an unlimited. Furthermore, the emergency numbers (911, 101, for example) will not be available in general. And call quality depends on the overall performance of the Internet, then there may be problems in audio quality or the latency (delay in the arrival of the response of our party).

The calls have not remained idle and expanded its service offerings. Telefonica and Telecom charge $ 16 for basic telephone subscriptions, and $ 0.0567 for each pulse of local call to a landline phone (2 minutes in 4 hours and reduced hours). But they also have plans with a lot of minutes if an amount paid access to the Internet (from Arnet and Speedy, respectively). In addition, there are special options for local calls. For example, Telecom offers a monthly payment of 4200 minutes for $ 29.90; Telefónica, as a plan by Call Rate Plan, which pays $ 0.242 per call, no time limit. And they have more offers of this style.

Several local vendors offer IP telephony attractive alternatives for the price of fertilizer or the portability of the service, which can be anywhere where Internet. They all offer at least one local number for the user.

Metrotel (ivoz.metrotel.com.ar), for example, offers a fertilizer with 500 minutes free local calls to fixed phones for $ 23, or without a monthly cost but can be recharged (such as prepaid cell phones) among other plans. Have an installation charge of $ 150, which includes the adapter to connect to the router for Internet access and any conventional telephone.

Another local, IP Tel (www.ip-tel.com.ar) offers a monthly plan with 400 minutes for local calls and 50 minutes to 29.90 pesos per domestic destinations. Meanwhile, Iplan (www.iplan.com.ar) offers a plan for 1500 minutes of local calls to fixed numbers for $ 93.17, with an installation cost of the adapter 100 pesos.

In all cases, calls between users on the same network are free, and there are more plans available. Calls to cell phones are a cost that ranges between 25 and 40 cents per minute and depends on the operator.

Although it requires a computer, the Skype service can also be competitive, with a payment of 10,000 minutes to the entire country by 4.54 euros, or around the world to 10.29 euros, must be borne in mind that Argentina did not is one of the countries with SkypeIn, ie the ability to handle calls made to a landline phone in Argentina, from anywhere in the world.

Telmex (www.telmex.com/ar/), for its part, offers a calling plan to the entire country for $ 0.21 a minute, or $ 0.18 per minute to the U.S. from a landline, a price similar to that of the VoIP providers that offer rates ranging between 0.10 and $ 0.15 per minute for fixed numbers of United States and some countries in Europe, and may be twice or more for other destinations, calls to tend to have a mobile that doubles the price of fixed calls, but still can serve to bring a bit of home economics.

Vonage - Voip Internet Phone Service

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol, for its initials in English), gives the possibility of voice communications over the Internet. This has faced legal issues of patents to companies that supply these services to technology companies traditional telephony. But those trials have been millionaires, but they say the provider Vonage in its dispute with AT & T and other telephone.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of such Voip Internet Phone services? Well first of all we must take from the point of view that is the look. If you are a provider of traditional phone, the disadvantages of this system are many, but if you are a user may have more advantages to highlight. Well trying to be as impartial as possible, the greatest advantage to the user is the cheaper fares that comes from avoiding the charge that fixed the traditional companies.

Another advantage is that you can move anywhere in the world, and where an Internet connection will work with VoIP service procedures that would use a cell under such conditions. The last advantage is obvious and bringing to any other cellular telephone service traditionally could compete with the functionality of VoIP. But not everything is as bad for traditional telephone. There are disadvantages in the use of VoIP as we all know the use of Internet and its speed depend on the available bandwidth, VoIP applications require bandwidth and are affected by network congestion or slow the flow of data.