Two New Web-based Calling Services Promise - But Don’t Quite Deliver - Free Calls to the US

A couple days ago we received a press release for a new service named CallingAmerica , which permits you to make free VoIP calls to U.S. phone numbers using only your web browser. Offered free of charge, users are required to look at advertisements for about 10 seconds before calls are connected ( AdBlock Plus worked just fine to suppress the ads, by the way). We've tested the service and you can use it to make calls from foreign countries to the U.S., although the founders, the world famous Goober Networks, don't want to publicize the feature.