Google has announced that it will let people in India use
the Hangouts app for mobile devices and the Hangouts in
Gmail to make free or low-cost international voice-calls over
the Internet. The search engine giant revealed that
people in India can now call
international numbers in the
US and Canada for free, while
for other countries the rates
are “really low”.
Google Hangouts users in
India using Android devices
will have to install the
Hangouts Dialer app from
Google Play to turn on voice
calls. Meanwhile, users on
iOS and the Web will get the
option to make voice calls
automatically.
The company also
announced that that the
first minute of calls to 24 countries from India will be free
and users will be charged for each minute after. The first
minute will be free for calls to these 24 following countries –
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Dominican Republic,
France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Korea,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United
States.
