tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post5740015748432088453..comments2024-01-16T05:48:33.523-05:00Comments on Errata Security: Some notes when ordering Google's Project FiDavid Maynorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09921229607193067441noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37798047.post-35061819695460561022015-07-02T14:59:31.638-04:002015-07-02T14:59:31.638-04:00"In-country phone calls are free, but interna..."In-country phone calls are free, but international phone calls still cost $0.20 a minute -- unless you are on WiFi, in which case it's free."<br /><br />I don't think this is quite right, looking at the <a href="https://fi.google.com/about/rates/" rel="nofollow">rate description</a>. International phone calls from the US to another country are *not* free. Whether on WiFi or cellular in the US, they'll route it through their VoIP Hangouts service, which means typically something like 1 cent a minute for landlines, 3 cents for cellular to countries like France and the UK, and 3 cents for landlines, 9 cents for cellular to Japan, etc. That's for POTS terminating calls. Using Hangouts or another non-POTS service (Skype to Skype, whatever) would of course be freeish, but suffer the data charge.<br /><br />When in a non-US country, in-country phone calls are not free. They are twenty cents per minute over cellular, and the same rate as calling that non-US country from the US over WiFi (since using Google's VoIP service). When outside the US, there's no difference between calling in-country numbers and outside that country numbers.<br /><br />Calling from outside the US back to the US, however, is free.<br /><br />Cellular data is the same rate inside or outside the US, in supported countries, though speed limited outside the US.John Thackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269867695937765049noreply@blogger.com