
That being said, since these apps work on virtually all smartphones in the world, there’s little reason you’d be calling a landline number nowadays anyway. You can’t call a landline phone number from the app without paying a fee. Keep in mind, however, that all these apps enable free app-to-app calls. And all data inside Signal is 100% encrypted too, unlike most other IM apps and calling apps. Signal, a new, 100% secure IM app that is now massively popular, will let you make both video calls and normal calls. Matter of fact–its free thanks to a number of popular apps like TextNow. Thankfully, calling the other side of the world couldn’t be cheaper nowadays. to Japan call could have cost up to five dollars a minute.

It used to be that if you wanted to call someone on the other side of the world it would have cost an arm and a leg.
