Actiontec VoSKY Skype Call Center ( USB07051C-01 )

by Actiontec

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.8 x 1.4 x 0.4 inches ; 5.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000CRUZ2O
• Item model number: USB07051C-01
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 9, 2005

Product Description

From the manufacturer

Make Skype calls from your cell phone, the nearest phone - any phone! Actiontec once again delivers a product that enhances your Skype experience. Before, you had to sit in front of the computer and wear cumbersome headsets for Skype calling. Now VoSKY Call Center from Actiontec takes the great sound quality and low cost of Skype calls and makes these features accessible everywhere, on any phone.

Key Benefits:

Place Skype and SkypeOut calls from your home, mobile, office or any phone

Now you can grab any phone and make a Skype call! Call Center makes this possible by working like a mini phone operator. Once you've connected it to your computer and phone jack, you call Call Center from any phone and tell it which Skype contact you would like to call. Call Center then makes and transfers you to the free Skype call. For more convenience, you can also connect a phone directly to Call Center and just dial your contact's number from this phone. In either case, make Skype calls from any ordinary phone, wherever you are.

Receive incoming Skype calls to any phone

Why sit in front of your computer all day to receive Skype phone calls? Why spend additional time there just so you can hear the headset or computer speakers ringing when you receive a Skype call? Call Center makes these problems a thing of a past. You can connect Call Center to a phone and hear an actual phone ring, loudly and clearly, when you receive a Skype call. In addition, Call Center will forward missed Skype calls to any phone number of your choice. Now you can be anywhere and still receive your important Skype calls.

Get notified on any phone when your Skype contact becomes online

When you make Skype calls on the go, you're inevitably going to call someone who isn't online and available at that time. Call Center has an easy solution. If this scenario happens, you can choose to have Call Center call your cell phone, or any ordinary phone number of your choice, as soon as your Skype contact is online. Then you can instantly call your Skype contact again with the press of a button.

Product Description

Now VoSKY Call Center from Actiontec takes the great sound quality and low cost of Skype calls and makes these features accessible everywhere, on any phone. Place Skype and SkypeOut calls from your home, mobile, office or any phone .Receive incoming Skype calls to any phone. Get notified on any phone when your Skype contact becomes online

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

88 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coolest product to use with skype!, February 11, 2006

By 

poojyam "poojyam" (california, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Actiontec VoSKY Skype Call Center ( USB07051C-01 ) (Personal Computers)

This is a must have, if you like skype. I never liked the pc calls in the early days due to the voice drops and the choppy sounds. But ever since skype came on to the scene, it has been a great experience. The voice quality is unbelievable. I have my folks from India calling me (I am located in US) from their PC using skype. Best of all it is free for me, as the internet connectivity is broadband for both my parents and me, so we can talk for ever without any per minute charges to the telecommunication company.

One issue with skype was that I am kind of tethered to the PC.
Well, not any more. With the vosky call center, I am no where near my PC. Infact I use skype from my mobile phone these days.
(see it is free after night and weekends for both incoming and outgoing calls). You might be thinking I have some of those fancy paid skype services such as skypein and skype out. Well No, nada. What makes it possible is this little product.
The setup is fairly simple. It has just three outlets. The telephone line goes to one of them. The other outlet connects to the telephone. The third one is a USB port which goes to the PC (with windows xp). I keep the PC always on with skype connected with my account. Now, I have setup all my family and friends with speed dialing numbers such as 1, 2 etc. Now all I have to call them from my regular phone is ##1.
Also dialing ## takes me to this vosky call center exchange. I can call any of my contacts with the preset speed dial numbers I have setup. Also, I can call from my mobile phone to my home phone number and access my callcenter(like those answering systems - password protected). Another cool feature is that I can put a wakeup call on any phones, whenever my contacts become online. So I do not have to setup a ren de vouz with my parents for a prearranged time for the PC calls. All they have to do is call my skype account, and my regular phone will ring. Also, from my phone, I can call my skype contact, and if they are offline, it gives me an option to
altert me when they become on line. So as soon as my parents sign in, I get alerted on my phone(or mobile).

Also, my PC has VPN, skype and call center software works in both mode. So thats is great too. Also, when the PC is off, my regular phone works as before.

Also you have the option to setup an answering system, which will route all calls to your PC as audio files.

Do not waste time buying USB phone/mic/speakers etc, when you can use your regular phone, anywhere, anytime.
I will post some pictures of my setup on www.emindshop.com

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This box is amazing. Make skype like your home phone and more., October 14, 2006

By 

J. Sundquist (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Actiontec VoSKY Skype Call Center ( USB07051C-01 ) (Personal Computers)

I have now purchased four of these for everyone in my family. I have two installed in Europe and two installed here in the USA.

The basic functionality is that it lets you use your home phone to talk on skype. When you get a skype call, your home phone rings. It works simultaneously with a land line as well. You can have skype and your land line connected at the same time. When you get a skype call your phone will ring differently than when a landline call comes in. It also acts like call waiting. If you're on a skype call and you get a regular call, you'll hear beeps just like call waiting and can flip between the two calls. It works with answering machines too. Incoming calls will ring the same number of times as your landline calls and your answering machine will pick up and they can leave a message just like a regular call.

The advanced features are amazing. You can setup the Call Center for skype call forwarding. I have mine set to ring 4 times and if I don't pick up at home, it will use my landline to call my cellphone and connect the skype call. I no longer worry about being at home to take a skype call.

The next cool feature is using the Call Center to allow you to make skype calls from any phone on the planet. With this feature enabled, the Call Center will answer your landline phone after a certain number of rings. It can make your PC act like an answering machine. When the greeting comes on, you can type in a secret pin code on the phone and it will then let you dial a skype call and connect you. Picture this: you're at work and have urgent news for your family in another country. Instead of making an international call or going home to make the call, you dial your home phone. The Call Center answering machine on your PC picks up. You punch in your pin and dial your skype speed dial number for your family and the call center connects you. You are now making an international phone call even though you're only paying for the call to your house.

When you receive skype calls at home, the skype ID of the person calling will show up on your home phone caller ID.

Setup is simple.

1) Install Skype and set it up on your pc
2) Install the software on the CD that came with the Call Center
3) Setup advanced Call Center features on your pc if you want to (it's optional).
4) Connect the Call Center USB cable to your computer
5) Connect your home phone to the Call Center
6) (optional) Connect your landline phone wire to the call Center

That's it. You're now in business.

Using this box has really improved my life! My parents in europe are not computer savvy and would have NEVER used skype regularly as it is complicated and confusing to them. Now if they want to talk to me, they just pick up the phone and dial ##1. If I want to call them, their phone rings just like normal.

Also, I am using a Cable Modem phone line (voice over IP) from my cable company and the Call Center works just great. I read some places saying it may not work well, but it does.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works as it should., June 30, 2006

By 

chidduck (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Actiontec VoSKY Skype Call Center ( USB07051C-01 ) (Personal Computers)

I bought two of these. They work great, in order to switch from the landline to the Vosky you have to press ## and then in order to type in a phone number you press 00+Country Code+Area
Code+Local Phone Number. It has worked flawlessly for me ever since I installed it. I use it with Skype 2.5 and it works perfectly. Make sure you install the drivers first before plugging the unit in, and don't get the two phone cables on the back of the unit mixed up as I did (if you are also using a landline, not required). You can only use the advanced features like call forwarding if you have an installed landline, otherwise its only good for using it with SkypeOut and recieving calls from Skype or SkypeIn if you subscribe to that service. If a Skype contact calls it shows their name on the caller id screen of your phone (if you have caller id on your phone). I can't recommend getting rid of your landline as tempting as it may be, because Skype does not support E911.

This thing is saving me lots of money, and it has already paid for itself.