Vivinavi : Hawaii : (United States) Hawaii

• SJDummy
• 2021/11/26 (Fri) 13:53
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This is based on the premise of a call from your mother to you in the United States. Have you heard of Skype numbers? When you sign up for Skype for $ 6 per month, you get a Japanese number starting with 050, and when you call that number from a landline ／ cell phone in Japan, the call will be placed to your Skype （ US ）. The caller pays the same rate as a regular phone call. However, this contract is only available to residents of Japan, so you must use your mother's address to sign up with your Skype ID. However, since your Skype ID is registered with a U.S. address, you will be charged approximately $ 6 per month. If you can get your mother to get a new Japanese Skype ID, you can sign up under her name and pay only 300 yen/month. However, since I have not tried this method, I cannot guarantee that you will be able to receive Skype calls on the same US phone using your mother's Skype ID. I assume you are using （ to call a Japanese fixed ／ mobile number on Skype from the US, but skype out ） $ 5 for 165 minutes. Call quality has always been fine. I have never used a calling card so I don't know much about it.

• nuiloamama
• 2021/11/26 (Fri) 14:08
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KDDI ended prepaid cards for international calls at the end of October. So it seems that sales at convenience stores have been scaled back.
My parents have been using it for many years, but I took the plunge and bought a tablet in Hawaii, installed Line, and sent it to Japan.

Off topic, does your mother have a Galaga Kei? ？
I used to buy phone cards from Amazon. I bought it and had it mailed to my parents in Japan.
The brand is called Icom.
I just looked at it and it is for sale, so if you have a Galaga, you can use it ？


Next, about the phone card I bought in the US.
If the connection is to a toll free in the US, such as 1-800.

If you call a toll-free number in the U.S. from Japan, you will hear an announcement in English saying, "The number you call will be charged regular international rates from overseas, so if you still want to call, just keep waiting …. It is as the announcement says. （ However, from cheap IP phones, you may not get an announcement, and you may be charged for the call ）

Depending on the type of calling card, the access line may be in another country, not only in the U.S., so please check the URL on your calling card. If your calling card has a URL, you may be able to find the access number for Japan if you access it once and check.
If there is an access line from Japan, it is often for international toll-free numbers starting with 00531.

You are worried because you can't even go back to your hometown in Corona in the middle of the day. I hope you find a good solution😊.

• Hawaii
• 2021/11/27 (Sat) 13:45
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Sorry
I don't know if this answers your question, but when my mother has something urgent or something she wants to talk to me about, I ask her to hang up and I call her back.
This way I don't burden my mother at all 😊.

• surf
• 2021/11/27 (Sat) 22:13
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My parents also have only a mobile phone and appliances, so I have them do the same as #5 Hawaii and have them do "one hangup" and I call them on my LINE phone to their appliances. line phones are cheap.

• フランダースの犬
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• 2021/11/27 (Sat) 23:32
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SJDummy
nuiloamama
For your information
Hawaii
Thank you for your answers.
I will let my mother choose from your answers.
I am currently using a callback system, but I would like to know if there is a calling card that my mother used to use, and what kind of tools other elderly people use to contact people overseas.
Thank you so much for your help. Thank you very much.