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USB Telephone Adapter User Guide

Calling Scenarios

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Setup: The USB Telephone Adapter is in my home, unattended, and I am elsewhere with a mobile phone

Scenario:

Use:

I pay:

My caller pays:

Route my incoming Skype calls to my mobile phone Skype to Phone Line
Call Forwarding
  • PSTN charge from my home to my mobile phone only if I pick up my mobile phone
  • Nothing
Make calls from my mobile phone to Skype contacts Phone Line to Skype
Toll Bypass
  • Mobile phone charge to my home, even if my Skype contact does not answer
  • n/a
Make calls from my mobile phone to phones worldwide using SkypeOut Phone Line to Skype
Toll Bypass
with SkypeOut
  • Mobile phone charge to my home, even if my Skype contact does not answer
  • SkypeOut charges if call succeeds
  • n/a
Route my incoming PSTN calls to my mobile phone

Phone Line to Skype
Call Forwarding
with SkypeOut

  • SkypeOut charge from my home to my mobile phone only if I pick up my mobile phone
  • Possibly mobile phone roaming charges if I am abroad
  • PSTN charge from where caller is to my home, until caller hangs up, even if I do not pick up the call on my mobile phone *



Setup: The USB Telephone Adapter is in my home, unattended, and I am away with my laptop computer (on a different Skype account)

Scenario:

Use:

I pay:

My caller pays:

Route my incoming home PSTN calls to my laptop computer Phone Line to Skype
Call Forwarding
  • Nothing
  • PSTN charge from where caller is to my home, until caller hangs up, even if I do not pick up the call on Skype *
I am abroad and make calls to phones in my country from my computer Skype to Phone Line
Toll Bypass
  • Local/national PSTN charges
  • Nothing

 

* The telephone adapter must answer PSTN calls before it can start Call Forwarding. Even if you do not answer the Skype call, people calling you will be charged on their PSTN for calls made to your telephone number from the time your USB Telephone Adapter picks it up, until they hang up.

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