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It can also be interpreted to mean that international call from US will be charged. As long as these calls make up for the cost US-US and US-Canada calls would
by tuxychandru 16y ago
It can also be interpreted to mean that international call from US will be charged. As long as these calls make up for the cost US-US and US-Canada calls would remain free.
It is not that rest of the world that will subsidize. It is the international callers who'll.
- ugh 16y agoAh, that makes more sense. Like Google Voice, this will probably not even be available for the rest of the world for a long, long time. Still sucks, but less :)
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoIt appears to me, just because I've got my country/language set to US English.
- joezydeco 16y agoI don't think that's really the case. I can call Germany for $0.02 with gVoice and that's pretty much the cheapest I've ever seen for a international rate. Even my family over there can't call the USA for less than EUR 0.019 (which is MORE than gVoice)
- DeusExMachina 16y agoMaybe you intended to say 0.19. 0.019 < 0.02
- ugh 16y ago0.019 Euro > 0.02 US Dollar Watch the units :)
- DeusExMachina 16y agoSorry, my fault. This really teaches me to read better comments, especially here on Hacker News. Thank you for pointing this.
- chronomex 16y agoMy preferred carrier has it for about half that, even after markup: http://www.callwithus.com/showrates/G http://www.callwithus.com/showrates/G
- joezydeco 16y agoHoly crap that's cheap. How's the quality?
- chronomex 16y agoSatisfactory to most destinations, speaking as a phreaker with sensitive ears. I strongly recommend them.
- eduardo_f 16y agoI use 12voip. It's cheaper. http://www.12voip.com/en/calling-rates.html http://www.12voip.com/en/calling-rates.html
- yread 16y agoThat's not cheap at all! I use JustVoip where landlines to most of the countries are free (after you charge your credit) and mobiles are less than half this amount. http://www.justvoip.com/en/calling-rates.html http://www.justvoip.com/en/calling-rates.html
- jkincaid 16y agoYes, sorry for not being more clear in my original post. It sounded to me like fees from outbound international calls originating in the US will be used to subsidize the domestic US calls.
- JulianMorrison 16y agoThis is based on the very shaky assumption that international callers won't learn to use Skype or Google's own VOIP chat.
- hyperbovine 16y agoIt's hard to get my 93 year-old grandma on Skype.
- JulianMorrison 16y agoEasier once she takes a look at the bill and sucks air through her teeth and says "so then, how do you make this computer free phone thing work?"
- aralib 16y agoI doubt they're her teeth.
- Raphael_Amiard 16y agoNo it can't be interpreted to mean that, because it's incorrect. I'm in France, and if i want to call France, i have to pay. But i'm not making any international calls. What it can be interpreted to mean though, is that Google wants to focus on us audience first, as they do with nearly all their services. I'm not in the US, but i'm fine with that. If they want to offer good service, they first have to make it viable economically.
- gorog 16y agoIt relies on Google Voice which is not available in France anyway.