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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:27:22 GMT, "divoch"
<divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
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>I suspect the hotels that have free wired internet access in their rooms
>are not in the budget bracket or they will make you pay for the access.[/color]

depends where you are, in the USA the Holiday Inn Express and similar
chains have it.

The motels favoured by serial killers etc probably don't :-)

Phil
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"Desk Rabbit" <no-spam@example.com> wrote in message
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> divoch wrote:[color=green]
>> "Desk Rabbit" <no-spam@example.com> wrote in message
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>>>divoch wrote:
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>>>>"Desk Rabbit" <no-spam@example.com> wrote in message[/color]
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>>>>It depends how would you use it. The way I would use it would be to call
>>>>relatives and friends who would be on Skype
>>>
>>>Assuming they have their PC switched on and are not in the garden sipping
>>>a Pina Colada.[/color]
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>> If it was not urgent I would try another time. If it was I would send SMS
>> (as they all have mobiles) alerting them to my desire to communicate by
>> a cheaper method then by a mobile call[/color]
>
> Factor in the cost of the text message to contact a skype user and you
> might just as well called them on a BT line in some cases.[/color]

Are you not forgetting that I am calling from France, Spain, Poland etc.?
I could not call them from a BT line or how do you propose I call their
BT line, if that is what you mean, to make it cheaper then using the method
I proposed?

If it was in UK all members of my family are on Orange and so I could send
them free voice message from my Orange Virgin EQ tariff. However, I do not
see UK calls to be my main concern right now.
divoch

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:27:22 GMT, "divoch"
<divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
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>"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:36:05 GMT, "divoch"
>> <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>This would be of no practical use while travelling abroad.[/color]
>>
>> plenty of overseas hotels with wired internet access in rooms. More
>> common than wireless in the USA.[/color]
>
>While abroad I would be looking for free Wi-Fi Hotspots to make
>free calls.
>I suspect the hotels that have free wired internet access in their rooms
>are not in the budget bracket or they will make you pay for the access.
>
>divoch[/color]

Rubbish, I stayed in 2 motels in the US which had Internet access and
was able to talk to my wife in the UK via the laptop and Skype

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:17:20 GMT, alexd <look@my.sig> wrote:
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>divoch wrote:
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>> "Desk Rabbit" <spam-me-not@example.com> wrote in message
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>>> £99 and it only works with one provider. You have got to be mad to buy
>>> that.[/color][/color]
>
>You can get a PDA second hand off eBay that will run a Skype client, amongst
>many other things, for a competitive price.[/color]

Indeed I use Skype on my MDA III
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>> The point is that now you also can sit in the garden in the sun....[/color]
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>You keep saying "now" and referring to this thing as if it was the first
>ever Skype handset. Have you been conned into believing so by a press
>release?[/color]

"Geoff" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:27:22 GMT, "divoch"
> <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
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>>"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
>>news:306om29cuo079b18a5lsd8pib2nktoi07l@4ax.com...[color=darkred]
>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:36:05 GMT, "divoch"
>>> <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>This would be of no practical use while travelling abroad.
>>>
>>> plenty of overseas hotels with wired internet access in rooms. More
>>> common than wireless in the USA.[/color]
>>
>>While abroad I would be looking for free Wi-Fi Hotspots to make
>>free calls.
>>I suspect the hotels that have free wired internet access in their rooms
>>are not in the budget bracket or they will make you pay for the access.
>>
>>divoch[/color]
>
> Rubbish, I stayed in 2 motels in the US which had Internet access and
> was able to talk to my wife in the UK via the laptop and Skype[/color]

Free Internet access? Good to know that. In fact it would be useful to
know how widely available is free internet in various countries
and which locations (e.g. hotels,motels,Wi_Fi hotsposts) and whether it is
wired or wireless.
In Krakow we did not have any Internet connection
available to us in the hotel but there were free Wi-Fi Hotspots
advertised.
divoch