Free Calling for Gmail Phone Extended Till 2011
A few months ago, Google introduced phone calls in Gmail. This feature allowed users to make calls to several countries through Google Talk and is powered by Google Voice. Back then Google had promised to provide free calling for users in the United States and Canada till the end of 2010. However, Google has now extended the free calling through Gmail till 2011.
In a recent blog post Google said that they will be extending free calling to US and Canada numbers till the end of 2011:
When we launched calling in Gmail back in August, we wanted it to be easy and affordable, so we made calls to the U.S. and Canada free for the rest of 2010. In the spirit of holiday giving and to help people keep in touch in the new year, we’re extending free calling for all of 2011.
Gmail Phone calling has been quite a success with more than 1 million calls being placed in the first 24 hours. Though there is no official numbers on how many calls have been placed till date, it should be somewhere close to a billion or even more.
Do you actively use Gmail’s phone calling feature? Are you satisfied with the call quality? Do let us know through your comments.
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I use it and sometimes I or the other person has an echo, but in general it is very good.
THANK YOU! Not to be ungrateful, however, I had always thought it was forever! I hope you do make it permanent within North America. :) I don’t want to see a bait and switch here. To make it a paid service, I believe the quality would have to be much, much higher than what it is now, instead of all the dropouts.