Hi Ann, Well, the first thing that comes to mind is a free program called Skype. www.skype.com You use a microphone and headset to talk to one another. It's a computer to computer program, so the sound is clearer than some of these online chat providers. You also may want to look into some of the 1010 phone number providers. Some of those can be quite reasonable even for international calls. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Byrne" <annakb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: free/low-cost computer/phone with JFW? > Our daughter is in France for the semester. Is there a JFW-friendly > internet/phone/kind-of-not-too-expensive service we can use to call her? > > Thanks > > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather > contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx