Nexotek NT-B300 manual MakingSkypeOutCallsonYourHomePhone, Press#tosendthecall, 1234567890 #

CHAPTER￿6:￿USING￿THE￿GATEWAY￿WHILE￿AT￿HOME￿	￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿22￿
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Making￿SkypeOut￿Calls￿on￿Your￿Home￿Phone￿

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SkypeOut￿is￿a￿paid￿service￿provided￿by￿Skype￿that￿lets￿you￿call￿any￿phone￿number￿in￿the￿ world.￿Because￿it￿uses￿an￿Internet￿connection￿instead￿of￿a￿phone￿line,￿long-distance￿ calling￿rates￿are￿significantly￿lower.￿You￿might￿want￿to￿use￿SkypeOut￿if￿your￿friends￿do￿ not￿have￿Skype,￿if￿they￿are￿offline,￿or￿if￿you￿want￿to￿save￿money￿on￿your￿long-distance￿ calls.￿To￿buy￿Skype￿Credit￿to￿make￿SkypeOut￿calls,￿refer￿to￿Appendix￿C.￿

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1.￿ Dial￿*￿on￿your￿phone￿to￿change￿from￿landline￿to￿Internet￿mode.￿You￿will￿see￿ the￿LINE￿light￿go￿off￿and￿the￿USB￿light￿go￿on,￿and￿you￿will￿also￿hear￿a￿new￿ dial￿tone￿with￿a￿higher￿pitch.￿

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2.￿ Dial￿zero￿twice,￿00,￿on￿your￿phone￿to￿initiate￿a￿SkypeOut￿call.￿

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3.￿ Dial￿the￿country￿code￿and￿phone￿number￿you￿are￿trying￿to￿reach.￿

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4.￿ Press￿#￿to￿send￿the￿call.￿

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	For￿example,￿to￿call￿the￿phone￿number￿(123)￿456-7890￿in￿Edinburgh￿in￿the￿
	United￿Kingdom,￿you￿would￿dial￿as￿follows:￿￿
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	￿￿￿*￿￿00￿		￿￿￿44￿	￿￿￿1234567890￿ ￿#￿
￿	￿	￿	Country￿Code￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿Phone￿Number￿
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As￿another￿example,￿say￿you￿wanted￿to￿call￿someone￿with￿the￿phone￿number￿(123)￿ 456-7890￿in￿Taiwan.￿You￿would￿dial￿as￿follows:￿

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	￿￿￿*￿￿00￿		￿￿￿886￿	￿￿￿1234567890￿ ￿#￿
￿	￿	￿	Country￿Code￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿Phone￿Number￿
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⇒If￿you￿do￿not￿know￿the￿country￿code￿of￿the￿number￿you￿wish￿to￿contact,￿visit￿the￿ Skype￿Dialing￿Wizard￿by￿opening￿your￿Web￿browser￿and￿typing￿ www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/dialing.html￿in￿the￿

address￿bar.￿This￿will￿guide￿you￿through￿making￿a￿SkypeOut￿call.￿

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⇒Even￿if￿you￿are￿calling￿someone￿in￿the￿same￿country￿or￿area￿code￿region,￿you￿still￿ need￿to￿dial￿the￿country￿code￿and￿full￿phone￿number￿of￿your￿SkypeOut￿contact.￿