Free Calling for Gmail Users Extended through 2013

Gmail users in the U.S. and Canada will get free calling for another year, Google announced Wednesday.

"You'll continue to be able to make free domestic calls through 2013," Mayur Kamat, a product manager at the company, said in a blog post.

Users with Internet connection and a microphone can make calls to any phone from within the email client. An option to "Call phone," indicated by a phone-receiver icon, is part of Google Chat's menu; when clicked, a pop-up with a dial pad appears.

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Google debuted voice calls in August 2010, and extended free calling at the end of every year-- through 2011 and 2012 -- since then.…
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