Best Apps For Free International Calling


BANGALORE: The world is shrinking and keeping in touch is as easy as just dialing a phone number. Gone are those days when a mother was helpless to talk and see her son at the same time.

Thanks to technology that has taken a big leap in the course of time and one can do video chat with anyone, anywhere in the world. When it comes to chatting, the trend is of WhatsApp, but when you want to speak, listen and feel the emotions, you think of skyping, isn’t?

Skype is a free voice-over-IP and instant messaging service, currently developed by the Microsoft Skype Division that allows users to communicate with other people by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the internet worldwide.

But apart from Skype, there are some other apps that can connect you anywhere around the globe for free or at a minimum charge. Here they are.

1. Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz is an instant messaging app for Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, Windows Phone and Java ME mobile operating systems. It has 150 million users in 200 countries.

Nimbuzz offers an excellent cheapest international calling service- Nimbuzz Out that is as low as 60p/min for U.S., UK, Canada and many other countries divided into different zones with their country codes. Nimbuzz supports interaction with popular messaging services such as Twitter, Facebook Chat and Google Talk.

Nimbuzz claims that its international calling rates are the lowest among all its competitors and it saves up to 95 percent on mobile phone bills.

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