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Yesterday morning Google posted an entry in their Gmail blog announcing, I guess for their North American customers, anyhow, the new feature for making free phone calls from directly within Gmail.

Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail. 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 our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

The comparison table lines up Google's prices against the "Leading internet telephony provider". Gotta be Skype right? In which case this is very misleading.