Using Yahoo! Phone Out
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is a premium Yahoo! Messenger feature.| Signing Up for Phone Out | Placing a Phone Out Call | Putting a Call on Hold | Managing Your Phone Out Account |
Signing Up for Yahoo! Phone Out
Yahoo! Phone Out is a service that lets you make calls from your PC to regular phones and mobile phones in over 30 countries (and at a very low price). This premium service requires a pre-paid Yahoo! Voice account of $10 or $25. To learn more, go to Yahoo! Voice.
Tip: The Yahoo! Phone Out service isn’t available when conversing with Windows Live™ Messenger contacts.
WARNING: You can’t dial 911 and other emergency service numbers using Yahoo! Phone Out and Yahoo! Messenger. Use regular phones or mobile phones to dial 911 and other emergency service numbers. Please inform others who are using your Yahoo! Voice services and Messenger that they must dial 911 and other emergency service numbers using regular phones or mobile phones.
It’s easy to sign up for the Phone Out service while using Yahoo! Messenger. You can also specify your calling country so that any number called within this country doesn’t require the country code. You can change the country as many times as you like. So, if you’re temporarily residing in Brazil, change your country to Brazil.
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Here’s How
While signed into Messenger, click the Phone Out link in the box below your Messenger List.
The Yahoo! Voice web site opens. (You may have to sign in.)
Follow the online instructions to sign up for Yahoo! Phone Out.
To update your Messenger interface and to begin making Phone Out calls, sign out of and back in to Messenger. When you sign back in to Messenger, the box below your Messenger List displays your current Phone Out balance. Each time you complete a Phone Out call, this area of the Messenger window shows how much money you have left in your account.
Click this balance anytime to go to the Yahoo! Voice web site where you can view your Phone Out account and add more money.
Specify your country in the Preferences window.
Select Preferences from the Messenger menu, then select the Yahoo! Voice category.
Select a country from the pull-down list in the My Country section.
What’s Next
Once you’ve signed up and checked your headset or microphone and speakers for sound quality (as explained in the Introducing Yahoo! Messenger’s Call Features tutorial), you can begin calling your friends just about anywhere in the world.
Words to Know
- Messenger List: a list of coworkers, friends, family, and associates who also use Messenger.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.