In order to save money one can also use Skype - the most popular communicator in the world (there are approximately 4 million users in Poland). Onet.pl website offers the Skype service of the Polish Internet portal. Skype offers free conversations and video calls to other Skype users, as well as cheap calls to landline telephones and mobile phones (SkypeOut service).
In Skype you can buy the Onet Skype licence, which enables you to call to 36 countries. The countries you can call once you bought the licence are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Canada, North Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Germany, Norway, New Zeeland, Poland, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Singapore, USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Hungary, Great Britain and Italy. You can also call to landline telephones in Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Russia. What is more, you can call to mobile phones in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and the USA.
You can also use the Number Skype To Go It enables cheap international calls in use of any landline telephone or a mobile phone. In order to avoid the roaming charges, one should use a landline telephone or a mobile phone from the same country from which the number Skype To Go originates, or generate (free of charge) a new number in a different country.
Internet Communicators
Internet communicators is the software that allows to send instant messages between computers (two or more), through the network of computers. It is different from the electronic mail, in the way that beside the messages themselves, the information about a particular user's presence and absence is also being sent. In case of his presence, it is possible to conduct a direct conversation. The latest communicators offer video conference option (providing a user has a microphone and a web-cam) and the vocal conversations.
The most popular Internet communicator in Poland is Gadu-Gadu (approximately 6 million users). It enables text, vocal and video conversations. It is user-friendly and is also available online (no need to download it to your computer).
The second most popular communicator in Poland is Tlen.pl (1.5 million users) The account in Tlen.pl network is connected to the personal e-mail account. The clients of Tlen can send text messages to mobile phones of Era, Orange, Plus and Heyah operators, for free. The communicator is also available online (no need to download it to your computer) and allows communication with Gadu-Gadu users, among others.
Other popular communicators, among others, are:
- Yahoo! Messenger - Internet communicator made by Yahoo
- ICQ - the first (1996) Internet communicator in the world, over 150 million accounts in the whole world (messages, text messages, chats, cards)
- Windows Live Messenger - the communicator made by Microsoft company, allowing conversation over the Internet, sending messages, and video-conference. WLM was created, based on MSN Messenger, with which it is compatible and with which it cooperates, it also has a function of connecting with the Yahoo! users
- MSN Messenger - a communicator by the MSN company, the Internet access provider that belongs to Microsoft. MSN has also a simplified version - Windows Messenger, which is included in the Windows XP operating system.
