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.