Google said that calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at very nominal rates.

Kick going by simply installing the voice and video plug-in and you are done!

How to Call Free to US and Canada:

Yes, you can make calls to US/Canada from your google account. Just simply change your location in your profile and select either US or Canada and after couple of hours simply logged back into your account and see the ‘Call Phone’ option which already showed up in this article and follow the instructions to make call from your Google account.

How to Call?

Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.

If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display this number as the outbound caller ID. And if you decide to, you can receive calls made to this number right inside Gmail (see instructions).