Phone Home 2

Found a device that could actually work. It is made by a Chinese company that uses Skype as a gateway to relay your call via a normal phone line connected to the box. It's actually cool how somebody thought of making something like this.

Here's how it works. You connect the device "between" your computer and the phone line. The box has 3 connectors - USB (to connect to your PC), line out to connect to your phone and the last is to connect to your phone line. User in another country can call up user with Skype box in Manila or whereever the box is and after a few unanswered rings in Skype, call is forwarded to a number of the caller's choice via a simple numeric code. Call is from the local phone connected to the box which makes all calls to Manila free!

In theory, the voice quality should be the same as a Skype to Skype call - which is outstanding if both users are using broadband. Box is being sold in eBay for about 50 bucks plus 15 shipping. My brother informed me that a similar box is being sold in Manila for about P4500.