Trying out a SkypeIn phone number
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008A few months back I wanted to get a separate phone number for the home office so that I wouldn’t have to use the home phone for calls.
At the time I checked Skype to see if I could get a phone number for Cork. For whatever reason it wasn’t available at the time. The other day it popped back into my mind so I checked Skype, they were available again!
I’d love to be able to set up a number that would spell out ‘ewrite’ but it wasn’t meant to be. All the Cork (021) numbers available started with 2348***.
The number I ended up buying is 021 2348553. It cost €57.50 including VAT for one year. 3 months is also available for €17 or so.
To try it out I phoned the new number from the house phone, it worked just fine except for a little echo of my own voice. Later in the day I received a couple of calls using the number and it all work flawlessly, grand sound quality.
Caller ID isn’t available for these Irish numbers from Skype however. If I call someone now from Skype it will show my mobile number as the caller ID, which is fine with me. It takes 24 hours for this caller ID to kick in.
So now with my new number and my trusty Binatone cordless phone / internet phone (€44.99 from Argos) I can make and receive calls from Skype without clocking up the home phone bill.
