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Free International Calls In Exchange for Viewing Ads

Welcome technology, big brother and free international calls. One can now make free international calls via internet to landlines courtesy of Pudding Media.

Well, of course nothing’s technically free. All you have to do is watch some ads during your conversation and hope not to be distracted. If you can handle that, you’re in a for a great service and a cheap conversation. Literally of course.

A decade ago, free international calls made over the Internet were unheard of. Skype came along and offered free phone calls over the Internet – but they charged a fee if the calls were made to landlines. The calls were only free if they were made pc to pc.

Now a start-up company is launching a new service called The Pudding and will offer free international phone calls even to landlines without any monetary fees.

The catch: Voice-recognition software will listen to the user’s conversation and will play ads related to things spoken about in the conversation. Similar to the way Google and Gmail place ads on your screen based on the content of your emails, some would say this is small price to pay for an otherwise costly service.

Speaking of big brother, Pudding Media is so sure that their free phone service will be a hit, they say they hope to be chosen tosupply the infrastructure once the entire world shifts into an advertisement-based model for phone calls.

At this point, the service will be available to English speakers only. Pudding plans to allow users who register for a beta program to test the service.

Recently selling the broadband company, Passave Co., to PMC-Sierra for $300 million,
Pudding Media Inc., was cofounded by Israeli entrepeneur Ariel Maislos.

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