At the company I work for we've been using SKYPE for a while now. We recently had a team member move down south causing our company a lot of money for phone calls. Using this program we've saved hundreds of dollars in phone bills.
Now what is Skype? Skype is a little program for making free calls over the Internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It’s free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers. Download Skype now or learn more about Skype (incl. screen shots). Skype works for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Pocket PC.
If you've got friends, family or other CAD buddies scattered across the world then SKYPE is for you. This little program allows you to call up a person over the Internet and talk right through your Computer microphone. With some applications I've tried you get that little delay. Feed gets broken. This program is so clear I its like your talking right over the phone. Ohh and its TOTALLY free. All you need to start placing calls is you and the person you want to talk to must have SKYPE a microphone and either head phones or speakers hooked up. Then create a user-name and you're set.
If the person you're trying to call doesn't have a computer no worries. If you sign up for the SKYPEOUT you use SKYPE to call ordinary phone numbers all over the world. Skype has posted that rates for a Skype call to France, Germany or United Kingdom can save you up to 56% than with AT&T CallVantage.
If you don't have a incoming phone line to accept SKYPEOUT calls there is a SKYPEIN. With SkypeIn, you can get your own, regular phone number. So if your friends who aren’t using Skype want to call you by dialing a regular number, you can still receive the call in Skype. No matter where you are. So, if you have a Chicago-based SkypeIn number, but you’re living somewhere in the suburbs of Paris, your Chicago area friends - or anyone! - can just dial your SkypeIn number, and your Skype on the other side of the world starts ringing... and your friends are only paying whatever their phone company charges them for making a local phone call in Chicago.
Lastly SKYPE also has a Skype Voicemail so when you're not at your computer you wont miss any of those important phone calls.
Click here to Download Skype: http://www.skype.com/download/