Viber indefinitely makes calls from the US to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen free

Viber's mission is to "connect people" regardless of their origin and religion, with free calls now offered from the US to seven Muslim majority countries.

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T-Mobile is charging a penny a minute for “out-of-plan” numbers

Fact of telephony: it costs more for telephone companies to handle calls to conference rooms, chat lines and broadcast lines. In fact, some conference calls which have been routed through so-called “free” services might prove convenient to the arranger of the call, but the charge then gets planted with the carriers involved.T-Mobile recently decided that it was paying too much to support these calls and has decided to defray them to its customers with a 1¢ per minute charge ...

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Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Google respond to Nice tragedy with free calls and texts to France

Long distance communication fees are the last thing on your mind when it comes to checking up on loved ones following the disturbingly frequent terror attacks of late leaving countries as diverse as Turkey, Iraq, Syria and France paralyzed with fear.But for their part, US wireless service providers can do little else to help in such heartbreaking circumstances than ensure you won’t pay through the nose if you know someone in an afflicted area, and have to contact them ASAP.Once again, ...

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