Dial 123 used to be good. Not sure if they operate in France. You just dial a national number That’s unique to your international number and they put you through. It used to be a couple of pence Minute form UK to New Zealand. Check if they’re still going.
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I use an app called “foocall” for landlines and mobiles numbers accross the world.
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Google meet?
Our family uses Viber. I have never used Viber Out because we all have the app, but I can tell you that regular Viber calls are very good quality.
We also use Google Voice to call any number in the US ( free, and you can buy international credit), but you would need to start out with a US number to verify, I think.
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Email from Microsoft today.
Clearly Microsoft’s plan to force paid monthly subscriptions instead of Skype user just buying call-off credit, has gone well. They announced forced paid monrhly fixed ubscriptions as the only way to keep using Skype, with inmediate effect just before last Christmas. When many of us had planned to use Skype as usual, to call remote family and friends at Christmas suddenly had to source an alternative to reach non-smartphoned relatives
Today’s email less than three months after they did that:
" Subject : Important Updates to Skype Paid Services**
In order to streamline our consumer communications offerings, we will be [ killing off ] [oops] , retiring Skype in May 2025… .We want to keep you informed about important updates to your Skype paid services [basically, you’re unplugged in early May]
Poor timing and as soon as I get time later this year, I’ll be asking you guys about taking Microsoft off my computer and substituting it with Linux.
We’ve been doing that for some time now but it’s not a complete replacement.
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What are you missing?
There’s some applications I use (old ones) that only run on Windows so we have virtual machines running Windows 7 (away from the internet) for that sort of thing. Normal day-to-day stuff like spreadsheets etc are fine with LibreOffice and the like.
Hello Karen from up the road. Did you get your credit back? I have had nothing from them, didn’t even know it was closing down till I saw it on the news too late.
I’d like mine back as I wouldn’t need to use it as mostly I call around Christmas. Plus discovered a previously lost 10 euro credit that somehow google wallet double charged.
However someone posted on a uk forum i’m on this morning, that Microsoft said (to whom?) they would not refund unused credits. Legally I think they should but enforcement on Microsoft, just like tax, looks pretty impossible.
If anyone finds out how we can get unused credit back please post. It’s a bit rough when many of us would only use the product occasionally and didn’t have any need to use any of our credit within Microsoft’s very short notice.period. And notice wasn’t given before action had beem taken by microsoft anyway eg blocking credits. Notice came very substantially late to users.
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Hello Everyone. I have signed in to Microsoft Teams and from the overflow menu (dots) by my profile icon, I selected Skype dial pad. This opened a Skype tab in my browser and my €3 credit was there and I have successfully made a phone call to the UK from France today.
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Note that Microsoft hasn’t said how long that will last