One of the writers over at SocialGeist was lucky enough to get their hands on the famed Google Voice. Google Voice gives you one number and lets you do a multitude of things with that number via the web interface. While I will not delve into all the features (they are pretty awesome) I would like to bring up something that struck me as interesting, the price of international calls.
As you may well already know, in state calls as well as texts are free through Google Voice. There is no service that provides international calling for free though but Google is offering it cheap. The standard rate for international calls via a regular phone/cell service runs up to about .80 cents a month, nearly a dollar a minute. With a calling card it costs approximanently .35 cents a minute and Skype is .22 cents a minute. Google Voice? .11 cents a minute and you can easily pay for the calls via Google Checkout.
This is very cheap and obviously Google is taking some sort of loss on this. This is great though for all the Google Voice users who make and recieve international calls. You can expect the price to rise overtime as more users get added. While it might not be quite as much as Skype the current price tag seems unsustainable. But Google is known for pulling the weight for long periods of time, just take a quick look at Youtube.
How badly do you want a Google Voice account now?
