Dial up in Microsoft Outlook

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Dronners

For the past few years I have been using my PC to make
personal telephone calls to friends and work colleagues
using Microsoft Outlook.
This was through my PC modem.
I have just changed to Broadband and find that I now
cannot do this any longer.The broadband supplier will not
help as they say that they do not support Microsoft
Outlook.
My O/S is XP Home and I am based in Derbyshire, England.

Can you help at all please?

Dronners
 
Broadband does not support telephone calls. You'll need
a live telephone line connected to a voice modem to do so.

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| For the past few years I have been using my PC to make
| personal telephone calls to friends and work colleagues
| using Microsoft Outlook.
| This was through my PC modem.
| I have just changed to Broadband and find that I now
| cannot do this any longer.The broadband supplier will not
| help as they say that they do not support Microsoft
| Outlook.
| My O/S is XP Home and I am based in Derbyshire, England.
|
| Can you help at all please?
|
| Dronners
 
For the past few years I have been using my PC to make
personal telephone calls to friends and work colleagues
using Microsoft Outlook.
This was through my PC modem.
I have just changed to Broadband and find that I now
cannot do this any longer.The broadband supplier will not
help as they say that they do not support Microsoft
Outlook.
My O/S is XP Home and I am based in Derbyshire, England.

Can you help at all please?

Dronners
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You can't use broadband to make telephone calls. If you don't have
computer access to an ordinary telephone line and an analogue modem,
then your best bet is to use Windows Messenger or ICQ or similar
software - of course your friends and colleagues will need the same
software and will need to have their computers running when you call.

The disadvantage of broadband is the inability to make telephone calls
or send faxes via the broadband cable. The advantage is that you can
make PC to PC calls using ICQ etc at no additional cost (assuming you
are on a fixed rate charge). I use ICQ and/or Windows Messenger
extensively to talk to (and see) relatives in Australia from here in
England.

Barry
 
You can of course use a phone connected to the usb port provided you sign up
for a VOIP service
David
 
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