PC to Phone on Windows Live Messenger

Hi - when using Windows Live Messenger how do you make a PC to Landline
call...?

Greetings Ian,

The easiest way is just to open the main contact list by double-clicking on the Messenger
icon in the notification area and choose the Phone icon.

If there is no phone icon then you may be in a locale which doesn't currently support the PC
to Phone feature (or more to the point, the billing of).

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Ian" <> wrote in message
news:F84773ED-CC79-4058-9F39-...
> Hi - when using Windows Live Messenger how do you make a PC to Landline
> call...?

Hi Jonathan - I suspected this - but I am a 'citizen' of the world - spending
a lot of time in USA, Europe etc..- although based in South Africa - so what
I want is to able to land calls in the USA or Europe....I am quite happy to
be billed in USD or Euro or whatever - paying via credit card - I can
certainly do this with Skype.....is there no way to 'force' the system to
give me the telephone icon...or to arrange landing with Verizon or whoever...?
Hope you can help...
Regards
Ian Alers

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Ian,
>
> The easiest way is just to open the main contact list by double-clicking on the Messenger
> icon in the notification area and choose the Phone icon.
>
> If there is no phone icon then you may be in a locale which doesn't currently support the PC
> to Phone feature (or more to the point, the billing of).
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "Ian" <> wrote in message
> news:F84773ED-CC79-4058-9F39-...
> > Hi - when using Windows Live Messenger how do you make a PC to Landline
> > call...?
>
>

Hi Ian,

Well, the service is available to those billable in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France,
Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, UK and the US.

If you change your Passport locale at http://account.live.com to one of these countries then
it should appear and you can get started and see if it lets you be successful. I'm not
really quite sure how laid back Verizon is about their billing.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"Ian" <> wrote in message
news:6D2CCD02-047D-4318-877A-...
> Hi Jonathan - I suspected this - but I am a 'citizen' of the world - spending
> a lot of time in USA, Europe etc..- although based in South Africa - so what
> I want is to able to land calls in the USA or Europe....I am quite happy to
> be billed in USD or Euro or whatever - paying via credit card - I can
> certainly do this with Skype.....is there no way to 'force' the system to
> give me the telephone icon...or to arrange landing with Verizon or whoever...?
> Hope you can help...
> Regards
> Ian Alers
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings Ian,
>>
>> The easiest way is just to open the main contact list by double-clicking on the Messenger
>> icon in the notification area and choose the Phone icon.
>>
>> If there is no phone icon then you may be in a locale which doesn't currently support the
>> PC
>> to Phone feature (or more to the point, the billing of).
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>>
>> "Ian" <> wrote in message
>> news:F84773ED-CC79-4058-9F39-...
>> > Hi - when using Windows Live Messenger how do you make a PC to Landline
>> > call...?
>>
>>