Is anyone using Yahoo messenger 9.0?

Has anyone tried using Yahoo Messenger Phone for making calls?

• I got the service to make phone calls through my computer, but it nearly never connects to the number. It just rings, than Yahoo voice mails answers. I've tried calling calling the phone at the nurse station, but it never rang. When my mother gets online from California (they have only dial internet access in her town), I ask her if the phone rang and she said no. Am I doing something wrong or is this service just crap. It's prepaid, and according to the customer guidelines, there's no refunds. It cost me $13, 26% of my income for a month. I live in a nursing home so I cannot afford a phone and they only provide one phone for all the residents to use, at the nurse's station. No privacy and 3 minute limit. Plus no long distance calls, which can be fun if you local friend has an out of town cell phone number. We are only allowed to spend $50 on personal things, which includes clothing, every time they lose something in the laundry, sodas or snacks. Outside the meals, we only get water. Anything else we have to buy from their vending machines. To get on the internet, I'm piggy backing off a WiFi signal from a nearby business.

• Answer:

  Yeah, Yahoo sucks at this type of calling stuff. I highly reccomend installing Skype. Very easy, works each time, and the rates are very good. Check it out.. and see if you like what you read.. and Install if interested. http://www.skype.com/getconnected/