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VoSKY: Vendor of Skype-certified extension hardware, including a model for small offices.  Their personal one-line gateway was favorably reviewed in the NYT.  Features:

• Call skype destinations, including skypeOut, from your usual phone set at home.
• Call into your home number (for example, from your cell phone) and have skype connect the call through to a skype destination.
• Forward incoming calls from skype to your cell phone or other PSTN destination.
• Call return: If a skype destination does not answer, you can get an automatic retry of the call when skype destination returns online.
• About $60 for the personal edition, $900 for the 4-line gateway.
• Downside: needs XP computer connected by USB and running to function.
  

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