T-Mobile + Facebook = Free VoIP Calls
April 26, 2011 by Nathan Miloszewski
Because Facebook wasn’t happy with just being the “home to more than 500 million-plus of your family barbecue photos or updates about cats” they’ve teamed up with T-Mobile to deliver a new app. Also, a survey says that 88% of Facebook fiends want to have voice capabilities from the site.
T-Mobile has announced a new brand called Bobsled with the intention of “bridging traditional telecommunications and Internet-based voice and data services” with it’s first product being an application that allows free calls through Facebook’s chat window.
The highlights:
- The Bobsled application for Facebook is available today as a free download for all Facebook users and is not exclusive to T-Mobile customers.
- Allows people on Facebook to more easily connect and gives a voice to social networking.
- Use of the Bobsled application for Facebook to place voice calls to friends through Facebook Chat requires just one click — The need for dialing has been eliminated.
- T-Mobile plans to evolve Bobsled to include video chat, to create the ability to place VoIP calls to mobile and landline U.S. numbers and to offer applications on smartphones and tablets across various mobile platforms, regardless of the carrier that powers such devices.
So, another avenue for making free calls over the internet has entered the fold with new applications including, possibly one day, calling your favorite VoIP Expert for free via Facebook?
