You can make calls from an Echo device, but you'll need an Echo Connect plugged into your landline service to receive them.
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Verizon Unlimited Together is a new $15 per month international calling
Free calling to over 70 countries on the landline and 40 countries on mobile and discounted rates in many other countries. But is it a great plan?
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US considering allowing in-flight voice calls
You pay for your airfare, pay for your meals and even let the Wi-Fi in the sky drain your wallet, too. You deserve a little more mileage for your connection than just a cramped seat, right? But with an immobile and therefore captive audience, it doesn’t seem fair to allow loudmouth voice calls on the plane.
The US Department of Transportation is considering allowing them, though, with advanced disclosure.
It is proposing that airlines tell consumers prior to ticket purchase for any given flight going through national airspace that it allows for VoIP calls — this opens up the possibility for voice calls to be legalized or banned outright. The public and the industry will be able to comment on the proposal before final action is taken.
Public reaction to a 2014 notice on a potential voice call proposal was intensely negative. France legalized in-flight calling in 2008.
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T-Mobile DIGITS ups the ante on virtual number assignment
Google Voice was able to let you do it to an extent for a while. AT&T NumberSync lets you do it now. And starting soon, everyone will able to spread and share their DIGITS around, presumably thanks to T-Mobile.
DIGITS is a new program that not only allows you to tie one phone number to up to five devices — your smartphone, smartwatch, computers and cell-enabled tablets — but also put up to five numbers onto any one phone so that you can combine work and personal numbers if you so desire. All devices will have the numbers’ call histories, messages and voicemail on them, no matter where you do your talking and walking.
T-Mobile claims that unlike Internet-based solutions, the Un-carrier can deliver better call quality and that the DIGITS app will work with other carriers’, including the other Big Three.
While DIGITS is available as an app for the following platform versions or newer:
- Android 5.0
- iOS 9.0
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome (Mac/PC)
T-Mobile has been able to natively integrate DIGITS functionality into the dialer of recent Samsung phones (Galaxy S6 and later flagships). It hopes to do so with more devices soon.
The Un-carrier is opening DIGITS up as a beta for feedback and tweaks and will proceed with commercial launch early next year. You can sign up for the beta here. Let’s hope things are kept fee-free as they are now.
If you like handling all your calls and texts in the place you’re most focused on right now and aren’t concerned about work-life balances that a multiple phone setup might afford or security concerns based on the intrinsic properties of any given phone or phones, then Google Voice was your cup of tea. So may be AT&T NumberSync. But hey, there’s DIGITS now.
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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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Facebook Messenger Group Calling is a free challenger to Skype
This is how Cortana will handle your calls and SMS on all of Windows 10
Convergence of our on-the-go and sit-down lives has been around for a long while with Google Voice, Skype, Continuity and now, even AT&T (and T-Mobile and ...
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