Facebook’s war against the calling feature of mobile phones continues. TechCrunch reported Thursday that the Android Messenger application is getting an update with the ability to call friends using voice over Internet protocol. This will roll out gradually to U.S. users, so Facebook Messenger on Android users may not have it immediately. People with Facebook Home can also use VoIP to call friends, without eating into their minutes.
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Yet another company has beat Skype to launching free telephone calls via Facebook: T-Mobile today debuted a service the wireless carrier is calling Bobsled.
