When will international phone calls be free?

摘要

Not anytime soon, bub. But when you eventually get your iPhone 4G, they should be included in your rate plan. 1 Which is weird, because it's probably been a long time since you nervously eyed the clock while on the phone with your granny in Smallville. Long distance has been all-you-can-eat since cell phones and voice-over-IP conquered the universe. But international telephonyrn-whether landline, cellular, or Internet-based-is still a piggybank-rattling affair: Providers just can't offer dirt-cheap calls across borders.