Google recently announced that its users on The United States and Canada will be able to make free calls from Google Voice until 2014. When you hear this type of thing, the first thing you do is not rejoice at the luck that Americans are, but rather curse their fate and wonder why the hell we don't have similar offers in Spain or Europe.
These calls are integrated into Gmail and we can do them at any time, although we may not have found incentives like the ones we announced with this news. Well it is true that Google call services are really cheap, you can check rates here Same and see that they work great even in international calls, especially if you call the United States, which is cheaper than calling within Spain. Calling from our country to a national landline number costs 2,4 cents and a mobile phone costs 13,3 cents, already with VAT included. To most of the European countries we get 2,4 cents to landlines and 9,7 cents to mobile although there may be variations depending on the operators of the destination number. TO The United States costs us 1,2 cents to any number.
Yet another piece of information to make us happier. The application to be able to use it from an Android phone or tablet only available for American and Canadian devices.
The conclusions are diverse and some a bit bloody:
- Google helps companies in the United States to do business abroad by calling 1,2 cents from any country in the world and letting them call from their mobile devices.
- Already in the rest of the world, the rates are quite good, in fact, they are better than those of Skype, although they give plans, which in the case that you call frequently to a specific country is very cheap.
- The thing about the Spanish mobile operators is irritating. How is it possible that it is cheaper for you to call a mobile phone in Holland than one in Spain. Well, because they put difficulties. Although this on the Internet they explain it to you daily.
In any case, free voice calls over the Internet should be a reality that only certain private interests are holding back, specifically those of the operators. In any case, to be able to do it from your tablet we have several options: Google+ hangouts, the Skype application for tablets and mobiles, LINE and its VoIP calls and many others give us a similar service that depending on the quality of the 3G in the countries works better or worse. In Spain, we already know what happens. With WiFi we have no problem.