Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 03:46 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:09:48 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> >
> >> You'd think that with everybody moving to VOIP, demand for actual
> >> telephone numbers would be *rapidly decreasing*...
> >
> > No, because everyone with a VOIP number still needs a POTS number,
> > because that's all the old system knows.
>
> Really? You need an actual phone number to run Skype? That's... that's
> like needing a static IP address to use IRC!

What he means is someone who wants to call you from a non-IP phone has to have a
way to reach you, and yes, you can have a "normal" phone number mapped to your
skype account so people can call you on skype from ordinary phones.

Regards
Aydan

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