WhatsApp introduced free calling between it's users a while ago and has been rumored to introduce video calling in near future. WeChat a competing China based instant messaging service has now introduced a new feature which will appeal to many, - a cheap VOIP calling feature allowing users to call domestic and international phone calls to cellphones and landliness across the globe.

Named WeChat Out, the feature is similar to Skype Out and Viber Out. WeChat is claiming their service to be cheaper with better call quality then the competition. WeChat is also offering a free trial credit of $0.99, which is enough for upto 100 minutes of international calls.

Google Voice has been a great way to make and receive free calls to USA and Canada. We have also shared a trick which enables users to make free calls to 60+ countries using their Google Voice account. Now, Google has announced the ability to make voice calls to regular landlines and mobiles from Gmail via Google+ Hangout, and to sweeten the deal calls to the US and Canada are now free from all countries where Hangouts calling is available. So this means if you have any relative or friend in USA or Canada you can call them for free from anywhere in the world.

This is not all, the new “Hangouts calling” also supports conference calling to multiple phone numbers and video participants on the same call, as well as play sound effects with the Google Effect app like applause or laughter.

Success of mobile VOIP application Viber has shown how popular free app-to-app VOIP calling can be, and how wonderful it will be if you get a weekly top-up for 100 minutes free international talktime added to this already awesome offering. New, mobile VOIP service maaii is offering exactly this to give there service the initial popularity push, an attractive 100 minutes free maaiiout minutes talktime every week to make free international calls to non-maaii landline and cellphone users from your iOS and Android devices.

Yesterday, I shared a tip on how to do unlimited international phone-to-phone calls from USA, UK and Brazil at local rates via free local access-number based VOIP call gateway, today I will show how to trick the gateway and call more then 60+ countries absolutely free from anywhere in world.

If your profession demands a USA phone-number or if you have relatives in USA having a local forwarding number comes pretty handy, usually you need to shell out money for having such facility as most VOIP service providers charge you for having an U.S.A. incoming phone number, but today I will be sharing not one but three services which will provide you a fully-functional USA call-in landline number for free without requiring any payment information.

One of the World's biggest telecom company - Reliance Communications, the Indian major is all set to make its presence felt in VOIP business, with the launch of their VOIP service Reliance iCall
they are surely going to make a impact in the VOIP market.

To promote the launch of their service the company is offering 100% free calls to landline and mobile phones destinations like USA, UK, Canada, Germany, China, France, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Brazil till 15 January 2009.

We have written about quite a few Free VOIP service providers here, most of them required users to download desktop applications to work and had calling limitations, but our latest share FreeRinger is an exception, the ad-supported web-based flash VOIP service allows users to call cellphones and landlines phones of more then 30 international destinations including USA, UK and Canada for free without any limits.

The whole process is pretty simple all you have to do is to register for a free account and follow the simple calling procedure as below.

Hongkong Based VOIP service provider Zoippe is offering free worldwide calling credit to new users via a special invitation link, to make use of the free calling credit, follow the steps: