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| Jan Vermeulen | August 3, 2011 | 1 comment |
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Google has announced that its Voice Calls from Gmail feature is rolling out to many new countries, including South Africa
Voice Calls from Gmail, a feature previously only available to Google’s user base in the United States of America, is rolling out in 38 new languages to countries all over the world, a post syndicated on various official Google blogs revealed yesterday (2 August 2011).
Julie Taylor, spokesperson for Google Sub-Saharan Africa, has confirmed that the feature is rolling out in South Africa, but is still not available in all countries. “We will continue to work on expanding the availability of this feature but do not have any timeline available,” Taylor said.
Pierre Lebeau, product manager at Google, also wrote in the blog post announcing the expansion of the service that it is available in 38 new languages. They have also reduced their call rates to over 150 destinations, Lebeau wrote.
We were able to test the service at MyBroadband. After loading credit onto a Google Voice account we were able to call a South African cellphone at $0.17 (around R1.15) per minute.
According to Google, you can buy calling credit in Euros, British pounds, Canadian dollars and U.S. dollars.
The ability to get your own Google Voice number still doesn’t seem to be available, which means that the feature is currently limited to within the Gmail web client.
