Thanks for the info, Oh My Said

 

We will definitely be getting a regular land line for our Qatar calls and, presumably, using some sort of setup for our calls in Qatar.

 

With Vonage it looks like I just purchase their little gadget (~US$20) that hooks into the computer and then hook my regular ol' phones up to that gadget. . .which seems so much simpler than Vonage unless I'm missing something.

 

I guess I'm also wondering what the advantages are to Skype vs. Vonage. . .keeping in mind that we will NOT be using the tethered option.