You dont "have" to use a headset.

You can purchase Skype VOIP telephones, that you can place anywhere in your house, or more than one. With this, you can use it as a standard landline account, with a bunch of benifits.

If you are in Africa, you can buy a US telephone number in any area code you like. Yes, you can get a bevely hills telephone number, or maybe you want a London UK (0208) number. When you do this its not just for looks.

If you are in africa and you make lots of calls to the USA, which would be costly, skype allows you to buy a telephone number (i think its about $10 for 3 months) in the USA and ONLY PAY local rates in the US.

Its amazing!

For instance.

I own a USA telephone number purchased through skype, even thought i live in the United Kingdom. If i make a call using my skype out number to say CCBILL, i ONLY pay US rates, not international. Saves me a lot of money.

What you also have to remember is skype only charge like 0.10c a minute

On a further note, if you have a skype phone in your house to recieve calls through your skype acconnt, IF somebody on your skype contact list calls you, you can pic that up on your smart little cordless phone and walk around your house having a 100% free convo with your buddy.


Skype is great, and is getting bigger. Jump in asap Lee, you wont regret it :shorthair:

I run my entire office off VOIP.