Skype in France

I am canadian planing a trip in France this spring. Can I use Skype when I am in a wifi area to call land lines or cell phone in France and can friends in France call me on my cell using Skype and what would be the cost?

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How good are the internet connections you are using?
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I've only ever used the free service so I'm not sure paying would make any difference.

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Please send your STG# together with the #s you are calling FROM and TO to me by PM (Private Message).
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Problems calling Landlines in France with Skype Un...

Hi all,
I've signed up for the free trial of Skype Unlimited and am having a few problems calling a couple of landlines in France. Both numbers begin +33 (0)9... but are both normal French landlines (at least, calls to them in France are charged the same as any other house phone). So I was wondering if anyone knew why this might be the case?
Thanks in advance for any help/tips!

I have also problems with +33 4 numbers and +33 5 numbers.
This is recent and was not the case before.

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pelicanfilm wrote:
So the question is: can she Skype using the local French GSM network using her iPhone?
Hello,
Yes that should work. Check with the local network operator. She will need to subscribe to the Unlimited USA/Canada Plan @$2.99/month OR purchase a little credit. Calls are charged at 2.3 cents/minute or part thereof. If credit is used to finance the call there is also a 7.9 cent connection fee per call (not per minute). If a Plan is used there is no connection fee.
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Skype has by far the worst customer support I've e...

I must say, I've been confronted with the worst of the worst: Comcast, Valve, AT&T but your customer service is a new peak.
It's the most incompetent and unprofessional customer service I've seen in pretty much my whole lifetime.
I had a rather simple issue of my account being compromised and my password changed. So I contacted Customer Service step by step by your FAQ, filled out the form and provided all necessary information. Since that point, I have received 4 mails from 3 different employees (? I'm not even sure if these are human beings or just automated bots), telling me the same thing over and over again, prompting me to fill out the same form that I've already filled out thrice(!) with no results whatsoever. I keep getting the same copy-pasted default text every time.
Do you people just have a network of bots sending a case around while copypasting the same text in it with the variety of putting one made up name from a long list to give the customer the illusion that his case is actually being worked on?
So, customer service obviously has no intentions of helping me recover my account and drags a usual case in bueracracy without any results while treating their customers like complete morons.
I will be looking for an alternative messanger for me and everyone I know and not going to bother making a new account, knowing how things are handled around here.
I guess this is what the illusion of monopoly does to you. Making you treat your customers like utter garbage because they "have no other choice". Way to go, Microsoft.
Edit: I just saw in related posts that other people had the same problem with the same frustration and never got an answer so I just wasted another 10 minutes on absolutely nothing because Skype doesn't care about their customers. I'm actually not surprised, seeing similar things in the industry every day.

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I will soon be traveling to Belgium and France. I have been told by Verizon that my phone will not work in Europe. However, when my husband talked to a representative from Skype, he was told that, with the Skype credits, we would be able to use our phone in Europe.... Please explain the discrepancy in what we were told by the two representatives from the 2 companies.
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--- At the risk of sounding technologically uninformed I don't understand the acronyms you used for phone compatibility in Europe. I have an unused iPhone 4 I had AT&T "unlock" for me (I understand there's no real way to check stateside whether the unlock process was actually successful, but I'll go with the assumption it worked for now) BTW AT&T website provides a form you submit and they'll reply within 48 hrs. Took 3 hrs for me, I assume because I have another phone under contract with them, so no harm no foul for them.
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OK, here goes.
I've had a Skype Unlimited World subscription for several years, a recurring $9.99/monthly payment. About a week ago I tried to make a call on my mobile and got the message saying 'Skype Premuim doesn't allow calls to phones, that I would need to buy Skype credit', etc....
Hmmm...what the heck is going on?
i checked my emails to see if a late May 'Your purchase has been delivered' mail had come in, and no, it hadn't. Hmmm...more wondering about what's going on. I did not receive any messages informing me of changes to my subscription, changes to Skype or changes to Skype Premium. i went to my account page at Skype to see that Skype Premium was active, but that $0.00 had been charged in late May. Hmmm....what's up with that?
I did read the 'Skype Premium' is changing, group video calls are free', whatever, but it still was not clear about being able make calls to phones, and that's all I've ever needed of Skype for the past couple years. i want to continue having what I had. And I have no interest in group videos call anyway.
What to do? There is no one to call and talk with, but I did have a 'chat session' with a support rep (automated?) who was not able to quite understand my concerns. it ended with the chat rep telling me I'd have Skype Premuim for free until next January. I did tell the chat rep that I just wanted to be able to make calls, that group video was of no interest to me, and she (chat rep had a female name) told me everything was fine, that i would be able to make calls as I had been doing for a few years now.
OK, I'm back on, right? At least that's what my thinking was. So yesterday i tried to make calls, and much to my dismay, there was the same message...'Skype Premuim doesn't allow calls to phones, you will need to buy Skype credit'....AARGH.
So that's it? You can not make calls to phones with Skype Premuim? Or you can, but Skype is having issued sorting it out? Would someone here be able to clarify?
I don't see any use for me of a Skype Premium account if I can't make calls to phones.
I see the world subscription is now $13.99 a month. I would have just preferred they tell me the subscription price was increasing, instead of having to go through this whole mess to find out things have changed. Certainly they should send messages to inform customers that changes have been made instead of having to dig around and find out on their own.

Hello,
Your account shows that you are calling a cellphone in Australia. Calls to cellphones in Australia are not covered by your Subscription. Details here;
With your Unlimited World Subscription you can:
Call LANDLINES AND CELLPHONES in: Canada, China, Guam, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, United States.
Call LANDLINES ONLY in: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia (Jakarta), Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, Venezuela.
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Skype for Business - Is it Ready for Business?

Hello Support,
We are evaluating Skype as a potential main solution for all our telephony systems.
We currently see many issues in the Gui Client and whole management proposal from our perspective.
Not sure how others have dealt with it.
With all respect, to us it seems the Business version of Skype is really limited for Companies with few employees.
Some of the problems we see.
1) Can't manage centrally the Phone/Contacts directory.
This means that adding an Employee account in the Company forces every single Employee having a Skype account and add that user in their own "Directory". This is something that is natural to be done centrally and pushed to the end-users.
2) The number of restrictions on the Client are definitely not sufficient in a Corporate Environment (end-users should not be able to: Add, Change, Remove or Block Contacts, modify any of the settings or views of the GUI etc). Basically the management console should control every aspect of the managed clients GUI and functionality. Best if those settings could be "pushed" to the end-points instead of dealing with GPO as it is more flexible. You may have totally separate domains (not trusting each other) and GPOs might not be the best way to distribute client settings. GPO would not work on Corporate Phones for example.
3) The system should have the ability to prevent a user to log off from Skype and log on with their personal user. In a Centrally Managed environment you don't want people to mess with the setup. Also, user name and password of their "Skype Client" may not be shared. There are many businesses in the Energy Sector where machines are setup x role and not x user (so when one Employee leaves the account will not be removed).
4) The msi should have the ability to embed (or pass via parameter) the main account where the Client is registered. In the Skype Manager I should then be able to see how many "devices" have been currently installed for the same user and manage/approve them accordingly.
The management office may not approve the Company Skype account on a device that does not belong to "Corporate".
5) Calls may be done world-wide but Support isn't.
Some countries (Singapore for example) are simply refused a chat session with the Skype Support with a "Not supported in your own Country" and redirected to a "Self Service" FAQ.
6) Skype conflicting with the Lync proposition and may be completely replaced by Lync in the "near?" future.
Not clear if MS wants to make money on the "voice" platform, on licencing or both.
Skype would be an attractive platform if those problems could be resolved but if potential business clients are pushed to Lync then the competition becomes Cisco Unified Communication, Huawei E-Space, Polycom UC etc (totally different ballgame). A company going through that complex setup would then also have to consider free open source such as Asterisk (using any free XMPP client and SIP integration).
So, if one wants to go completely "free" and have a very simple setup Skype could be an excellent choice, but the current issues (from our perspective) hinder the chances a mid-size / large enterprise adoption of the platform.
I have looked at the SkypeKit solution that may be used to completely re-create the GUI and probably eliminate many of the previous listed points, but rewriting the GUI is not a small task and you end up getting stuck with a proprietary "in-house" solution.
It'd be nice to see Microsoft views in this matters.
Thank you.

Hello,
I am an export manager consultant for a French company. Starting in September, I shall be in charge of sales personnel in France as well as international sales primarily those from North America. I want to set up bi-monthly video chats between the sales team, the office and be able to talk with all people (maximum 8 people) when I am travelling, am in the office, or from abroad. Unfortunately, I need to be reacheable 24/7. I also have my company.
The office has PCs, two IPads and I have a MacBook Air.
The Company has 4 personal accounts. I have my own personal account at the moment.
Should we all merge these accounts under one roof? Can I add my personal account to this eventual business account?
What is the best solution to be able to video chat, have a minimum credit on each salesperson's iphone and be able to manage all this without too much trouble? (I have not been able to find the requisites needed for a Skype business account and its advantages over a personal account.
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PROBLEM WITH LANDLINE PHONE CALLS TO FRANCE

Hi, We do have a subscription for unlimited world, but we are getting problems to make phone calls to landline numbers in France, most of the phone numbers starting by +339 do not work. The calls do not even enter. Please let me know what can be the problem. Regards

tintamundo wrote:
Hi, We do have a subscription for unlimited world, but we are getting problems to make phone calls to landline numbers in France, most of the phone numbers starting by +339 do not work. The calls do not even enter. Please let me know what can be the problem. Regards The +33 9 numbers are not traditional landline numbers. These are VOIP numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/+33 Traditional landline numbers in France would start with +33 1, +33 2, +33 3, +33 4, or +33 5. Mobiles start with +33 6 and +33 7. The +33 8 numbers are either Freephone or shared-cost numbers. I didn't see anything in the Skype prices covering calls to VOIP numbers or to the numbers starting with 9. You may want to contact Skype Customer Support and provide them the number you are trying to reach in France, and see if there is something they can do to help you.

I've tried calling my skype number

Hi I wanted to see if my skype number worked. I tried calling it from my land line from my house in France. I got an auto message saying the number is invalid. I tried with and without the national code. Please let me know how my friends and family can call my Skype number. I'm traveling starting from Oct 1 in Mexico, and I would like it to work before I go. Thank you.
Rose

RoseRobin wrote:
Hi I wanted to see if my skype number worked. I tried calling it from my land line from my house in France. I got an auto message saying the number is invalid. I tried with and without the national code. Please let me know how my friends and family can call my Skype number. I'm traveling starting from Oct 1 in Mexico, and I would like it to work before I go. Thank you.
Rose
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What subscription is needed to call USA from Franc...

GREETINGS TO ALL!
Here is my question. I have a dedicated Skype number (which I suscribed in the USA hence a USA number)
I am now in France and I am confused as to which subscription I should use to call USA.
USA to USA ? (eventhough I am physically located in France)
or USA to France? or France to USA?
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M1AM1 wrote:
The problem is that I no longer see the same rate of $2.99/month I used to pay.
Hello
The $2.99 price is only available to users who are currently resident in either the USA or Canada. As you are in France and accessing the internet from there you will need to pay the price which is presented to you in France or purchase the Subscription when you are next in the USA.
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Please note that I generally don't respond to unsolicited Private Messages. Thank you.

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