Further, you could even do what I do: forward calls from my cell phone to my Skype numbers. So someone in your town could make a "local" call to your Skype number and it would "ring" on your computer whether you are in the US or in France - costs the caller the same. If you have a netbook or laptop: when you use Skype, you can switch to a "phone keypad" tab that has a phone keypad where you can press numbers to get touchtone sounds as you normally would from a payphone, say, to enter the code to listen to your answering machine messages.įYI, you an also get a Skype phone number in your own area code to receive incoming calls - for only $18 for three months (outgoing calls are separate).