Bluetooth connection to my Macbook

I'm hoping someone can help me. I would like to link my iPhone to my macbook so that I can use it as a kind of hands free headset. I am using skype on the macbook and would like to be able to talk via skype away from my computer. we don't don't have reliable and high speed WiFi where I am right now (deployed overseas) so using skype for iPhone is not an option.
is this possible and if so how do I do set this up? Thanks for any help in advance.

I don't know of any ways to use iPhone as headset.
I guess if you have the iPhone Bluetooth headset, you can setup your Mac to use that. Or probably any other BT headset.

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