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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: texst to a landline
Date: 5 Jan 2025 13:00:58 GMT
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> > Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >> We were forced to rent telephones until they broke up Bell
> >> Telephone. Long distance calls only became affordable much
> >> later. To this day I wouldn't call Europe. I have no idea what
> >> it would cost.
> > 
> >   Well, you could install Skype on your computer (or smartphone ("Yeah,
> > *right*!")) and call European landlines for a few cents per minute (if
> > that 'much') and mobile numbers for a bit more.
> 
> Or simply use whatsapp. Large swathes of the European population use
> whatsapp and calls only require data; i.e. free using home wifi. 

  Yes, but that applies to normal people in non third-world countries.
That doesn't apply here! :-) Expecting the caller to accept to use Skype
is already a big ask and probably a too big one.

  But yes, we use WhatsApp with our relatives in Australia, all the
time.

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