We are becoming less and less dependent on mobile networks. You can get a data signal almost everywhere that you can get a mobile signal and most of us are around WiFi most of the time anyway.

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Fring's app for "jailbroken" iPhones allows for semi-free VoIP calls--as long as you've got a Wi-Fi connection handy. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...

Facebook Messenger by Crisp App combines two services that many of us hold near and dear: Facebook chat and VoiP. The app aims to one-up Facebook’s existing chat service by adding its own free VoiP ...

T-Mobile's Bobsled app, which was announced in April and gave free Internet calling over Facebook to the masses (non-T-Mobile customers included), was a cool idea. But it struggled after Facebook ...

In recent years, VoIP — where calls travel over the internet rather than through old-school phone lines — became a top choice for business communications. The biggest reason? Using VoIP costs far less ...