Skype-In For Canada – Next Year?

10. Sep, 2009 11 Comments

CBC Story

The CBC is carrying a story about the Skype for iPhone application release today and contained in their article is a bit about Skype-In:

Another feature from the company, SkypeIn — which assigns users a phone number so that they can take incoming calls — is still not available in Canada. Company executives told CBC News in early 2008 that the service would be rolled out within a year, but it has still not launched here.

Part of the holdup is a regulation that requires telephone providers to support e-911 service, or “enhanced” 911, which allows emergency responders to locate the caller. Skype does not yet offer e-911.

“It’s one product that we’re constantly trying to widen with distribution. Canada happens to have more complex laws and regulations,” Yeung said. “We’re still working on it.”

Hopefully it will come sooner rather than later.

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  • http://www.onekingtelecom.com jim

    There is a company called http://www.onekingtelecom.com offering porting of canada telephone numbers to skype with voicemail to email and call forwarding.
    you can recieve calls on skype and be anywhere.

  • christine

    Thanks,. i got a vancouver number, quality is good , i luv the voicemail to email feature, and the call fwd to cell !!!

    thanks jim

    christine..

  • Trevor

    http://www.ring2skype.com I\ve tested them and seems to work ok.

  • Ron Francis

    now that the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is part owner of Skype it would surely be negligent of them to ignore the market in Canada for skypein for CPP contributors -the CPP Directors on the Skype Board should push for this ASAP in the interest of Canadian pensioners!

  • Colden Wakely

    JetNumbers.com do it but don’t use them. They seem to only have one guy running the place and the service is regularly down, expensive, and their support is up to a 30 day response time. Not acceptable.

  • rayad

    Ring2skype.com seems to work. I guess it is a temporary fix til skypein in canada becomes available. Thanks Trevor.

  • http://profiles.google.com/eyestir Bill Owen

    911 is a cop out. It’s a persons own decision not to have that capability anyway. This is all about Telus and Rogers and Bell making some calls of their own — to the CRTC.

  • Vhq1990

    I’d like to see more news coverage on this. With the changes in parliament on digital property, I think the discussion on digital censorship could be asked…

  • Stevietre

     Flexyphone.com offers you FREE Skype and Voip accessories for your FREE Voip calls, when you get any virtual number so you can receive incoming calls through any FREE VoIP service such as SkypeIn, GoogleTalk, Voipcheap, VoipDiscount and many more SIP VoIP providers… You could now get incoming calls and make outgoing calls without paying long distance fees with those VoIP services. Free accessories include USB Handsets, and Skype USB PSTN adaptors with integrated answering machine etc…

    Visit the site http://www.flexyphone.com to order your Free Accessory, along with a virtual number from any country and replace your home phone with a FREE Voip service today.

    Flexyphone.com is the SkypeIn numbers provider in Canada, France, UK, USA, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy Germany, Australia, Russia, and many more countries…

  • Stevietre

    http://www.flexyphone.com offers SkypeIn Numbers and FREE Skype and Voip accessories for your FREE Voip calls, when you get any virtual number so you can receive incoming calls through any FREE VoIP service such as SkypeIn, GoogleTalk, Voipcheap, VoipDiscount and many more SIP VoIP providers… You could now get incoming calls and make outgoing calls without paying long distance fees with those VoIP services. Free accessories include USB Handsets, and Skype USB PSTN adaptors with integrated answering machine etc…

    Visit the site http://www.flexyphone.com to order your Free Accessory, along with a virtual number from any country and replace your home phone with a FREE Voip service today.

    Flexyphone.com is the SkypeIn numbers provider in Canada, France, UK, USA, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy Germany, Australia, Russia, and many more countries…

  • Stevietre

    See: http://www.flexyphone.com for SkypeIn Canada and FREE Skype accessories

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