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Early this year Facebook embarked testing free voice calls in Canada via their Messenger app, and now the feature is leisurely being flipped out to the US. If you have Facebook Messenger already installed, just open up your contacts list and click info on any person to see if there is an option for “Free call.”

Facebook calling works essentially the same way as any other VoIP service, such as Skype, but Facebook has the massive advantage of being the largest social network and having access to all your contacts.

I tested out the Facebook free calling feature last night and found the voice quality was pretty good. Calls can be made over a WiFi network or a cellular network. Facebook warns users that they still have to pay for data, but we are not sure exactly how much data a call consumes.

Most carriers now provide unlimited minutes, so there might not be an instant advantage to making a VoIP call when data consumption is often limited. However, there are still a lot of people on older plans that have limited minutes and unlimited data, so Facebook calling could be appealing to them. For businesses, however, VoIP these days is a must-have due to cost savings. Business VoIP service can be had at a rate much lower than traditional phone service, and the quality is on par.

The feature is leisurely being flipped out to Facebook accounts in the US, so don’t worry if it’s not available yet. If you have a Facebook account and want to test it out, grab Facebook Messenger from the link below.

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Carriers are providing out minutes like it’s candy. Voice usage is going down year on year. Carriers care more about data usage… which is why most plans have caps. The carriers would love for more people to use VoIP on their cellphones. They can charge you for data overages.

Or if you’re on the T-Mobile one hundred Mins/5GB of data….I always run out of minutes a little before the end of the month :-/

I’m on unlimited calls / text / data.

But I’m leisurely moving to im and voip services, as I’m planning for when my contract completes.

Had a contract for 13years,and come end of contact, I’ll be getting a data sim only, using my Skype number, facebook, and bable. I’ll only meet minimal data as 9/Ten times I have wifi.

The carrier data will be a back up for emergencies

…… Google Voice + Groove IP. Free calls to any US number as well as free texting, and free call forwarding to any phone.

FB Calls is kinda stupid when Google lets you do all that.

Until we see bable, Google suggesting gargles and is mainly used but geeks.

O and the main thing g voice is us (maybe canada) only. And they way it works atm it is likely to stay that way.

I know Skype, and a number of others do calls well, but facebook has the numbers.

The carriers will be watching this very closely.

T-mobile already had wifi calling that does similar job so it not like it a big deal, yet.

Actually i am with tmobile and i cant actually call thru wifi…this feature has helped me, since my phone is disconnected….

Your phone has to be activated for wifi calling to work, it needs an active number.

Re: NEED TO HAVE PHONE SERVICE

My phone service is disconnected….I was shocked when I received phone calls from two of my friends in India ( im in U.S.A.)

I am only able to use my phone over wifi ….and use mainly for facebook and youtube….. so Im pretty excited to know I can get calls now too!

this is truly just another gimmick. no point to this at all. until this starts doing free international calls including mexico (not discounted) it’s worthless. ppl were making voip calls last year without facebook so why do we need it now all of a unexpected?

and to the dude above that said this “Google suggesting deepthroats and is mainly used but geeks” truly. since you’re on this site and posting i’m guessing your using an android device…so i’m go out on a limb here and say that you master are a geek. that’s if you stand by your own words. if you haven’t notice android is google…or did you think it was just apple in disguise? also stop trolling.

Hell yes I’m a geek,I wouldn’t be here listing to your shit otherwise! I was talking about everyday people aren’t using Google voice, it a geek thing mainly. There was no trolling, it was the finish opposite, I’m in total favour for a company to bring free calls to the world, and FB are In prime position.

Google to should be able to make an suggesting, but what they have today just doesn’t cut it. To many disjointed services, Hopefully Babel will cure it.

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