I'm looking for a service that works exactly like Skype out where I can make phone calls to the US without any hardware other than a headset. I just want to purchase a small amount of credit, I'm not looking for a monthly plan like Vonage. Why not just use skype? Because they froze my account for no reason and have the most incompetant customer service I've ever dealt with. Only use skype for p2p calls.

I use Yahoo Voice, though I'm not all that thrilled with it. Just from glancing at the Skype website, Yahoo Voice appears to be much cheaper. Thailand to US, I pay a penny a minute and pay in $10 increments. I'd say that average amount of time before I get disconneted is between three and four minutes, though I've had calls last as long as 40 minutes.

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I've used Skype Out extensively between Europe and NA, and I'm very happy with it. I don't think I've ever been disconnected, and customer service is as good as can be expected.

Glad you had a good experience. I used it to call me mom twice then I tried making another call a few days later. I got a message saying "your account has been locked. Click here to find out more." I click the link and it takes me to the skype main page. There is nothing on the entire site that relates to locked accounts. I send an email asking wtf is going on. Three days later I get an email saying "we need you to verify your credit card information, confirm the last four digits, country of origin, etc." I reply to this with the information they requested. I hear nothing from them for three weeks so I send them an email asking why this is taking so long. Two weeks later I get an email back saying "sorry, too much time has passed since your first email, please re-submit your customer service issue." So I again send an email saying that my account was locked without explanation, and to save you time, here's all the information I know you're going to request in the response. I tell them to either promptly unlock my account or give me a refund. That was over a month ago. No response of any kind. Do not give money to these people.

wow that sucks.
probably has to do with you being in Laos though?! still, it sucks that c.s. is soo bad