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Recently, my parents returned from Italy, not only with a few bottles of Chianti but also with $750 in calling charges. Buon giorno! Racking up exorbitant mobile charges is easy to do if you are not careful about using your cell phone internationally. AT&T, their carrier, charges 99 cents a minute to use the phone in Italy, and that is if you paid for the carrier’s international calling plan. If you did not, the charge goes up to $1.29 a minute. What my parents did not realize was that they could have nearly eliminated those charges if they had set up their Internet-enabled phone to take advantage of mobile calling services: That $1.29-a-minute charge would have shrunk to a much more palatable 2.4 cents a minute. Use of the Internet to make calls has been around for a while. One of the largest providers of the service, Skype, has grown to more than a half a billion user accounts since its founding in 2003. And while many people have gathered around the PC to talk to far-flung friends and family members, new applications and services can replicate that experience — and the saving — on cell phones. To transform your mobile phone into a device capable of making inexpensive international calls, you need to consider a few things. Ideally, you have a smartphone that can gain access to Wi-Fi, like an Apple iPhone or a Motorola Droid. Wi-Fi ensures the best call quality, since it is carried over a high-speed Internet connection rather than through third-generation, or 3G, cellular networks. If you do not have a Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone, you are not out of luck: There are calling services that use local phone numbers to place calls. You dial a local access number as if you were placing a regular call and follow the instructions, and…
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