Seems my local store has run out of long-distance calling cards....boo.
Gotta call mom you see, and of course mom can't use internet properly, and no microphone at her end, also she of course has only land-line....so i must call her by phone directly. No Skype, no FB, etc...
I used to use IP card, but perhaps now discontinued or maybe guy just cant be asked to stock more...
Do we have other options or services in this wondrous China for direct calling home on the cheap?
Or if your local store has IP cards, I would go get one or two, just tell me where!
Cheersss.
Help make a lonely internetless woman happy...
you can call private numbers from skypes, but you buy credits on sky pe
true. but can i buy them while in china via unionpay?
dunno try it. but you must use browser that chinese banks like, they don't like goolge
Simple enough to buy credit on Skype with whatever bank card. Done it myself when I've had to call things like bloody centers based in uk.
Make sure to install Skype though if you were trying through browser which I've not tried.
Maybe setup PayPal to put union pay money in will sort the china bank card problem out.
You can also check with your mobile phone provider. Some of them have special numbers you can call or prefixes you can add to get reasonable international rates calling directly from your phone.
Following DanTheMan above, China Mobile prefix is 12593 to get reduced international call rates.
cool! thank for heads up on that !
got CM SIM, but guess i'll hafta go register or some such at CM office...?
You can top up Skype with unionpay.
Skype is owned by TomTom which is a Chinese company. I've done it many times.
