Free VoIP to Landline Calls for Life... Kinda.

According to a recent announcement on their website, Skype rival Gizmo is now offering free calling to land line and mobile phones in 60 countries! What's the catch? The land line or mobile phone must be owned by an active Gizmo Project user. So although you'd be able to call from your Internet phone to your buddy's land line or mobile, you'd have to still get all your friends to sign up for the Gizmo Project.

This begs the question: What's stopping someone from just saying they own all these numbers that their buddy needs to call? Well, you can only enter two numbers into the interface as your own: Home Phone and Mobile Phone. So unless you want to go changing these numbers around every time your buddy wants to make a call, you'll just have to take the honest route.

These Gizmo guys make their money off of any outbound calls you make to people who aren't Gizmo Project members (for 1.0¢/min), and off of those who purchase "Call In" numbers (basically a phone number you can give out for unlimited inbound-calls to your Gizmo) for as little as $3/month.

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Read: engadget