Free SkypeIn on the go
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SkypeOut calls are free in North America. (SkypeOut: those outgoing calls to landline and mobile phones.) But SkypeIn ones aren’t. Period. TalkPlus hacks it. Period. With their Java mobile applet, Skype users don’t even need to register to the SkypeIn service to get incoming calls.
The hack has been demonstrated by Jeff Black, TalkPlus CEO, and videocasted on Skype Journal. “That app shows his Skype address book, and he clicks on Skype’s echo123 acount. For those who don’t know it, echo123 is one of Skype’s first test accounts. It doesn’t have a SkypeIn number, so you couldn’t fake access by dialing a PSTN number that forwards to echo123. TalkPlus doesn’t have any access to Skype’s private SIP gateways. So this demo shows that TalkPlus customers can dial any Skype user by their Skype name.”
We’re bad. We shouldn’t spread this info, otherwise Skype would be kind of forced freeing its SkypeIn too. But after all, we just follow the Skype tagline: Anybody can talk for free.
Nov 14, 2006 | By Nuno
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